| From Independent: BHP Billiton’s chief executive sounded a cautionary note at the group’s annual general meeting yesterday, saying that it will be the middle of next year before the world’s biggest mining group would know if demand for commodities had stabilised.
Marius Kloppers said Chinese demand had largely accounted for the growth in commodity prices in the last six months, but while Chinese stockpiling was largely complete, he said, growth in 2010 depended on demand from OECD countries............................Full Article: Source
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