Marius Kloppers, the boss of BHP Billiton, a huge mining firm presenting its results this week, argued that emerging markets were much more important to the firm's fortunes than rich ones were.

在这个星期公布业绩的大型矿业公司必和必拓的老板克罗·帕斯提出，对公司利润来说，新兴市场比发达国家重要得多。