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Freeport returns to oil with $20bn deals
Taken together, the moves will create the fifth-largest natural resources company in the US and the fifth-largest mining company in the world
The way corporate China woos
Cnooc’s courtship of a Canadian energy company illuminates how Chinese companies plan overseas bids, say David Gelles, Leslie Hook and Anousha Sakoui
UPDATE 6-Freeport makes $9 bln energy bet; Wall Street pans deal
* Freeport to pay $6.9 bln for Plains, $2.1 bln for McMoRan
