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Rolls-Royce Makes Gold Out of Base Metals
By some measures, 2017's performance was far less impressive than it first appears.
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If you're a customer of Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc, there's a fair bet you got a call toward the end of last year, politely asking you to pay your bill.
The British maker of aircraft engines is under pressure to show investors that it can generate more cash, even as it's losing money on the new models it's shipping to customers. Making its task more difficult is the fact that its Trent engines already in service are suffering technical problems and need expensive repairs.