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(Bloomberg) -- BHP Group, the world’s biggest miner, posted its highest ever full-year profit on record commodity prices, and will push ahead with growth…

>> set a record, it was huge, it was $7.6 billion, which was a phenomenal profit record for this company. but when you look at the earnings per share, they came in at 39 cents, and that was two cents shy of what the street has been expecting. and probably the bigger problem here is the numbers from europe. we saw a loss of $600 million in europe, loss of $100 million in south america, and the company at least the critics say have been slow to address those problems in europe. we did talk to the ...

Out today from health care america now, we have just learned that the five largest for profit insurers made a combined $12.2 billion last year. for those of you keeping track at home, that is a 56% increase from 2008. a new profit record. set of course in the middle of the worst economic decline since the great depression. they accomplished this record feat at least in part by covering 2.7 million fewer people through private insurance than before. its as if someone has pushed the reset button o...