Fortescue keeps building the arc

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Fortescue has released its full year profit results today and they are again very conservative. Profits jumped 56% to $2.7billion in 2014, as production costs fell with capex and volumes soared. That was slightly behind estimates.

Stephen Pearce, CFO, said he will repay another $500m of the firm’s debt in October, continuing the campaign to lower leverage which has already seen the redemption of $3.1 billion in debt ahead of schedule.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.