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• Records achieved across all key earnings measures including Underlying EBITDA up 27.1% to US$23.0 billion and Underlying EBIT up 31.4% to US$20.1 billion.
• Attributable profit up 34.7% to US$13.7 billion and EPS up 39.1%, benefiting from ongoing buy-backs (both measures excluding exceptionals).
• Record Underlying EBIT margin(1) and Return on Capital Employed increased to 48.4% and 38.4% respectively. This is the sixth consecutive record for both measures.
• Record net operating cash flow(2) of US$15.6 billion, up 48.9%.
• Annual production records for natural gas, alumina, aluminium, copper, nickel, iron ore, manganese ore and metallurgical coal(3).
• Costs, net of non-cash costs, increased 3.6%, continuing a declining trend of cost increases.
• Significant volume growth expected in 2008 in oil, copper, iron ore and nickel.
• Final dividend rebased to 27 US cents per share demonstrating our confidence in the outlook. This is an increase of 46% on last year’s final dividend.
• US$6.3 billion of US$13.0 billion capital management