Liam Denning, Columnist

Alcoa's Stubborn China Syndrome

It'll be stuck with its aluminum business for another rough stretch.

January 12, 2016 at 2:49 PM UTC

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

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