Arizona Capitol Reports Staff//July 20, 2007//[read_meter]

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.’s $26.4 billion purchase of Phelps Dodge Corp. is turning out better than expected.The company, now the largest publicly traded copper producer, is surging from copper...

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