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May 14 2013 08:28 BST
BHP considers returning cash to shareholders
BHP Billiton will consider returning more capital to shareholders as the world's biggest resources company by market value reduces spending on new projects and exploration and focuses on improving productivity. In his first major speech to investors since he was named BHP chief executive in February, Andrew Mackenzie told aBy Neil Hume in Sydney
May 09 2013 20:14 BST
Glencore Xstrata: trump cards
Investors who stayed with Xstrata for the ride of the merger with Glencore will hope good things really do come to those who wait. One week into trading of the commodities trader and miner, and shares have gained 4 per cent. That is less impressive when considering that Rio Tinto
May 07 2013 10:40 BST
Resource stock gains boost FTSE 100
Sustained appetite for resource stocks on hopes for more central bank stimulus action around the world has helped take the FTSE 100 to its best level since December 2007 while banks gained after better-than-expected results from HSBC. With risk appetite across global markets still energised by the prospect of continuedBy Michael Hunter in London
May 01 2013 07:00 BST
End of mining boom hits equipment makers
Mining executives raised the alarm late last year about the end of the boom in the sector - and now earnings data are confirming that the decade-long expansion in the mining services industry is also all but over. <The tabular content relating to this article is not available to view.By Javier Blas in London
Apr 29 2013 19:02 BST
BHP Billiton to sell Pinto Valley mine
BHP Billiton has agreed to sell its Pinto Valley copper mine in the US for $650m as part of an ongoing review by the company to slim down and cut costs. The all cash deal for Arizona-based Pinto and an associated railway company to Capstone Mining takes the value ofBy Christopher Thompson
Apr 22 2013 19:59 BST
Caterpillar: scaredy Cat
It says something about Wall Street estimates when a big, important company cuts its sales target to a level well below the analysts' consensus - and the stock rises. This is what happened at Caterpillar yesterday morning. The maker of life-sized Tonka Trucks and industrial generators cut its 2013 sales
Apr 21 2013 13:52 BST
Vale: the shipping orecast
Finally, Vale has landed one of its controversial mega ships in China to unload its iron ore. Whether this signals relaxation in the country's ban on Brazil's giant carriers is yet unknown. But it is a shame that this has come at a time when the fall in shipping rates
Apr 19 2013 18:30 BST
CEO pay: hair-shirt awards
Chief executives tend to be fairly unimaginative team players. You have to be to get to the top of a large organisation. Hence they tend to run with the crowd. If other bosses are earning squillions, they all want squillions. If expanding into China is all the rage, off to
Apr 18 2013 10:12 BST
New BHP chief to take pay cut
Andrew Mackenzie, the new chief executive of BHP Billiton, will be paid significantly less than his predecessor Marius Kloppers in what the world's biggest resource company by market value said was an "appropriate" move for more straitened times in the mining industry. The details of his remuneration package came asBy Neil Hume in Sydney
Apr 17 2013 08:30 BST
BHP affirms full-year output forecasts
BHP Billiton, the world's biggest resources company by market value, has reaffirmed full-year production guidance in spite of a lacklustre performance from several key businesses in the past quarter. Production from BHP's iron ore division in Western Australia and its petroleum assets both missed analysts' forecasts in the three monthsBy Neil Hume in Sydney
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