BHP Billiton News

With all of the recent drama in Europe taking center stage, many quality U.K stocks have taken a dive in price and are near their 52-week lows.

BHP Billiton Group - SWOT Analysis examines the company's key business structure and operations, history and products, and provides summary analysis of its key revenue lines and strategy.

In the midst of a heated legal battle between Chilean state copper company Codelco and Anglo American PLC , Codelco's chief executive Diego Hernandez resigned Thursday.

MELBOURNE May 24, 2012--Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said today that it had assigned its 'A+' long-term credit rating to BHP Billiton Finance Ltd.'s drawdown from its existing EUR20 billion medium-term note program.

Hakluyt & Co., the corporate investigations firm that hired British businessman Neil Heywood as a consultant in China , has been thrust by his death into a place it promises clients it will never be: the limelight.

Tickers in this Article A AUSE , WOPEY.PK , XOM , CQP , EAW , COP , HES , BHP , BBL , CVX , RDS-A , RDS-B Much of Australia's investment thesis has come from commodities.

The conventional wisdom in commodity investing is that in the long run fundamentals will win out over short-term price swings caused by news headlines.

Yesterday's National Press Club speech by AWU boss Paul Howes and the latest economic update from the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development provide a telling contrast that demonstrates where economic debate currently is in Australia and where our political debate may well be headed.

BHP Billiton Ltd.'s loss-making manganese alloy operations in Tasmania secured a reprieve, with smelting set to resume after the mining company found areas in which to cut costs.

EDMOND ROY: The Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union representing workers on the Bowen Basin coal mines in Queensland has just announced plans to take more industrial action next week.

This is what's in the news for Wednesday May 16, 2012. The Wall Street Journal reports Greece's future in Europe's common currency was in doubt after efforts to form a new government failed and the country's political turmoil set off a dramatic increase in bank withdrawals.

India, the economy of the world's largest consumer market for gold, appears to be hurting badly.

Global mining, oil and gas major BHP Billiton Monday justified the company's $20 billion foray into US shale gas stating that shale liquids developments are now among the most attractive projects in the world.

Its operating assets are grouped into various Customer Sector Groups, including Petroleum, Aluminum, Base Metals, Diamonds and Specialty Products, Stainless Steel Materials, Iron Ore, Manganese, Metallurgical Coal and Energy Coal.

HE has a reputation for seducing his audiences like an old-school Christian preacher.

Argus Metals Corp. has contracted AK Drilling International S.A. to execute a minimum 2,500m drill program on its 100% owned Kaituma uranium and gold project, north-west Guyana.

The balance on goods and services was a deficit of $1,587 million in March, seasonally adjusted, compared with an upwardly revised deficit of 754 million in February.

I am a small individual investor interested in dividend growth stocks and foreign equities.

Recent rumors that Nexon might acquire Electronic Arts may indeed be only rumors, according to Bloomberg sources, but the former is in talks with EA concerning the distribution of the coming version of its FIFA Online game in Asia.

Rio Tinto , listed on the American stock market and headquartered in London, is but one of the subsidiaries of Britain's Rio Tinto Group which straddles the world.