Glencore closes 2011 with positively useful. The Swiss commodity trading giant listed on the London Stock Exchange archives last year's accounts with gains in del% increase 7 compared to 2010, up to 4,06 billion dollars. Also revenues increase (+28%), reaching 186 billion. Net financial debt, on the other hand, fell 12% to $12,9 billion.
Strengthened by these accounts, the company has announced the distribution of a dividend equal to 10 cents per share. From Glencore they let it be known that 2012 also started in a positive way, and that there is optimism about the growth in demand from emerging countries in the short term.
Last month the Swiss company launched a friendly offer to buy Xstrata mining, of which it already controls 34%.
