BHP Billiton News

German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp AG said it has sold its industrial services unit North American Safway Group to a private equity company based in New York, Odyssey Investment Partners LLC.

U.S. stock futures on Friday pointed to a weaker start, hurt in part by Dell's worse-than-forecast profit drop as traders moved toward safer securities like bonds.

BHP Billiton Ltd chief executive Marius Kloppers says his company is cautious about the global economy and that restocking in developed nations has been lethargic.

Rio Tinto Group has less desire to complete its Australian iron ore joint venture with BHP Billiton Ltd.

BHP Billiton Ltd., the worlda s largest mining company, could boost earnings by 10 percent by buying back $15 billion of its own shares, Southern Cross Equities Ltd.

Asian stocks advanced this week, lifting the MSCI Asia Pacific Index for the first time in a month, after Group of 20 governments agreed to maintain stimulus efforts and Japana s machinery orders grew more than estimated.

Nov. 13 -- James Moffett, fund manager at Scout Investment Advisors, talks with Bloomberg's Carol Massar and Matt Miller about the outlook for stocks and his equity picks.

Nov. 13 -- Michael Cuggino, who helps oversee more than $4 billion at Pacific Heights Asset Management LLC in San Francisco, talks with Bloomberg's Matt Miller and Carol Massar about the U.S. economy and fund holdings.

Asian commodity stocks declined, led by BHP Billiton Ltd. and PetroChina Co., and bonds climbed on concern the pace of the global economic recovery will slow.

Irelanda s best-performing money manager is a stock market bull. Joe Oa Dwyer , chief investment officer at Merrion Investment Managers in Dublin, bought more shares in oil producers BP Plc and Chevron Corp.

Little more than a year ago, BHP Billiton , the world's largest mining company, was trying to coax its fellow mining giant Rio Tinto into a combination of the two companies.

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BARREL oil discovery or a 15-million-tonne copper discovery would excite the market in BHP Billiton, the world's biggest resources group.

Resources giant BHP Billiton Ltd has a new window of opportunity to make a fresh bid for rival Rio Tinto Ltd, after it abandoned a takeover move last year.

China's largest nickel producer, Jinchuan Group, has been kicked out of the next stage of BHP Billiton Ltd's process to sell its mothballed Ravensthorpe mine in Western Australia's south.

Chinese coal imports are set to continue to grow strongly for metallurgical as well as thermal coal as demand for electricity and high-quality coal increases, said Peabody Energy Corp.

THE obvious question raised by recent suggestions that Rio Tinto's proposed iron ore joint venture with BHP Billiton is unattractive to a recovering Rio and should be either renegotiated or dumped is: unattractive compared with what? Rio has halved its gearing, with assets sales and a rights issue and the global crisis is receding, but there is ...

Stocks of interest on the Australian stock exchange today. NWS - NEWS CORPORATION - up 38 cents at $15.53 NWSLV - NEWS CORPORATION LIMITED VOTING - up 49 cents at $13.40 Global media giant News Corporation has reported an 11 per cent lift in first quarter net profit and upgraded its guidance for 2009/10 on the back of an encouraging outlook for the ...

MARKET leader BHP Billiton is suffering from a severe case of share-price gridlock.

Australiaa s trade deficit widened less than economists forecast in September as a surge in exports of coal offset a matching gain in imports.