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China Eyes U.S. Coal Manufacturers

Published 07/22/08 Jeff Bennett - Print Article
E-mail - editor@economyincisis.org

The U.S. may relinquish some of its top coal producers to China, a country starving for natural resources with the world’s fastest growing economy.

China relies upon coal for 80 percent of its energy needs and uses one quarter of the world’s annual consumption. America’s top eight coal producers are worth more than an estimated $50 billion. A bargain for the Chinese who already own $405.5 billion in U.S. debt.

America can ill afford to lose more of its companies and jobs to entities abroad. The nation’s coal mining industry is currently 48 percent foreign owned. The U.S. does not need to lose more of this industry to foreign interests.


Source MoneyMorning:

The top eight U.S. coal producers, which are worth more than $50 billion, are possible takeover targets for a country desperate for resources. And compared with China, American coal companies are bargains.

At a point when the U.S. economy is slowing under the weight of a growing financial crisis, and spiking food-and-energy prices, escalating growth in the developing economies around the world has ignited a bull market for coal that analysts believe could last for at least 10 years.

”In the next 12 months there will be an unprecedented amount of both domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions," Wilbur Ross, chairman of International Coal Group Inc. (ICO), told Bloomberg News. "U.S. reserves are undervalued relative to those in the rest of the world."


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