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...Well, there are full-year results from BHP, the miner that until 2018 was called BHP Billiton....
...In 1990, the S&P’s biggest stocks were IBM, Exxon, General Electric, Philip Morris and Royal Dutch Petroleum....
...Lower oil and other commodity prices weighed on Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 index as Beach Energy shed 7.4 per cent, Woodside Petroleum fell 3 per cent and BHP Billiton slipped 2.5 per cent to a two-week low...
...Meanwhile South32, the Australian mining group with coal assets spun out of BHP Billiton in 2015, says it is getting out of thermal coal, used for power generation....
...Martin Arnold EARNINGS HSBC Holdings FY $0.90 ($0.69) BHP dividend cut looms BHP Billiton has a record of not having cut its dividend that stretches back to the merger that created the Anglo-Australian...
...BHP Billiton led the sector lower, falling 2.7 per cent to £20.75. Kazakhmys was 2.1 per cent lower at 808½p....
...BHP Billiton’s full-year numbers were just coming through in the last half-hour of trade in Sydney, as the diversified mining group reported a 15 per cent fall in underlying earnings....
...Iluka Resources climbed 6.7 per cent to A$12.68 and BHP Billiton rose 1.3 per cent to A$31.16....
...Randgold Resources , down 3.7 per cent to £51.50, also reported a weak start to the year. Rio Tinto fell 2.2 per cent to £33.63 and BHP Billiton was 1.1 per cent weaker at £19.96....
...In Sydney, miners and energy producers rebounded, with BHP Billiton up 0.9 per cent to A$32.77. Oil Search advanced 0.6 per cent to A$6.75 and Woodside Petroleum added 0.1 per cent to A$31.74....
...In Sydney, mining group BHP Billiton fell 0.6 per cent to A$36.03 and Rio Tinto declined 1.1 per cent to A$64.91, while Woodside Petroleum lost 2.2 per cent to A$35.40....
...Resources stocks were mixed after Wednesday’s losses, with index heavyweight BHP Billiton advancing 0.2 per cent to A$31.99 and Woodside Petroleum up 0.7 per cent to A$31.11....
...Antofagasta of Chile gained 1.5 per cent to £12.16½, while BHP Billiton of Australia rose 1.4 per cent to £18.72½....
...Australian miners remained resilient, BHP Billiton climbing 4.1 per cent to A$36.20 and Rio Tinto rising 2.9 per cent to A$63.20....
...The BSE Sensex rose 1 per cent in Mumbai to 16,498.47 while Sydney’s S&P/ASX 200 index gained 2.2 per cent to 4,173.44, miner BHP Billiton lifted 1.8 per cent to A$38.21 on Chinese growth optimism....
...BHP Billiton rose 5.2 per cent to £19.96 after Goldman Sachs added the stock to its “buy” list....
...BHP Billiton , the world’s largest miner by market value, rose 3.6 per cent to A$38.40 while Woodside Petroleum jumped 4.4 per cent to A$36.33....
...Vale bonds trail BHP, Rio as higher taxes loom Vale SA’s borrowing costs rose to a record yesterday relative to BHP Billiton as Brazil seeks to raise mining taxes amid surging metals prices, Bloomberg reports...
...BHP Billiton, up 1.5 per cent to £23.79, would be an ideal suitor, dealers suggested....
...If Cadbury had been a much-loved Canadian company facing a foreign takeover, inexpensive chocolate would have been declared a vital national asset, as potash was during BHP Billiton’s bid for PotashCorp....
...Woodside Petroleum leapt as much as 7 per cent during the session to reach a 15-month high of more than $50 a share following reports that BHP Billiton was preparing a takeover bid for the company....
...BHP Billiton was up 0.4 per cent to £25.37 after Credit Suisse analysts argued that it was unlikely to bid for Woodside Petroleum, the Australian oil group....
...BHP Billiton, the world’s biggest mining company, rose 0.4 per cent to A$44.8 and Woodside Petroleum, Australia’s second-largest oil and gas producer, was up 1.2 per cent at A$45.9....
...US energy shares saw a slight lift after BHP Billiton was said to be considering a $90-a-share bid for Anadarko Petroleum, the US-based oil-and-gas explorer....
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