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Vale Posts Lowest Earnings in Six Years due to Iron Ore Slump
May. 01, 2015 04:15AM PST
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Mining.com reported that Brazil’s Vale (NYSE:VALE) posted its lowest earnings in six years and the third straight quarterly loss, attributed to a drop in iron ore prices and a fall in Chinese demand.
Mining.com reported that Brazil’s Vale (NYSE:VALE) posted its lowest earnings in six years and the third straight quarterly loss, attributed to a drop in iron ore prices and a fall in Chinese demand.
As quoted in the market news,
The Rio de Janeiro-based miner logged a net loss of $3.2 billion in the first quarter, compared with a net profit of $2.4 billion in the same period last year.
It also reported that first-quarter adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or Ebitda, dropped 61% to $1.6 billion from a year earlier, the lowest since the second quarter of 2009.