BHP Chief Executive Marius Kloppers said last week that demand is surprisingly strong from China but remained cautious about sustained recovery for the demand in commodities.

必和必拓首席执行长高瑞思(Marius Kloppers)上周说，中国的需求出乎意料地强劲，但他仍对大宗商品需求的持续复苏持谨慎态度。

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Marius Kloppers, chief executive of BHP, said the negotiations' outcome validates arguments about the value of Australian iron ore, but he refused to discuss any further implications.

必和必拓首席执行长高瑞思(Marius Kloppers)表示，谈判结果证明，他们关于澳大利亚铁矿石价值的理由是正当的，但他拒绝谈论该结果更深一层的影响。

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Marius Kloppers, the boss of BHP Billiton, a huge mining firm presenting its results this week, argued that emerging markets were much more important to the firm's fortunes than rich ones were.

在这个星期公布业绩的大型矿业公司必和必拓的老板克罗·帕斯提出，对公司利润来说，新兴市场比发达国家重要得多。

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Mining giant BHP Billiton has announced that its chief executive Marius Kloppers will retire in May.

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"As we finalised all the details of the project in the context of current market conditions, it became clear that the right decision was to continue studies to develop a less capital intensive option to replace the underground mine at Olympic Dam, " said BHP chief executive Marius Kloppers.

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Of course, this is not baseball but one cannot ever take ego out of the equation when it comes to managing a company and it will not go unnoticed that if BHP is frustrated in its approach for Potash Corp. it will be the third corporate takeover failure to be chalked up by CEO Marius Kloppers since he assumed the role in 2007.

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