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After surging metal prices helped drive first-half earnings.
By Thomas Biesheuvel, Bloomberg
5 Aug 2021
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Glencore Plc will pay out $1.18 billion through dividends and share repurchases after surging metal prices helped drive first-half earnings to a record.
Glencore is the latest of the big miners to report record profits, following Rio Tinto Group and Anglo American Plc. Producers and traders are cashing in after a broad rally in commodity prices in the first half, as governments around the world unleashed trillions of dollars in stimulus packages to help the global economy emerge from the pandemic, boosting demand for raw materials.