The iPhone 8, due to be unveiled in September, is likely to be innovative enough to encourage around 250m-300m iPhone users to upgrade, driving a new " supercycle" of sales.
BHB Billiton's audacious $150 billion bid in 2008 for a rival, Rio Tinto, would have created a commodities supergroup, captured the debt-fuelled spirit of the commodities supercycle of the 2000s.