BHP Billiton to award shareholders
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Announcing record profit and revenue for the past year yesterday, global resources group BHP Billiton says it has decided to award a $2bn bonanza to its shareholders.
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The chief of BHP Billiton, the Australian mining company, delivered an early farewell gift: record half-year earnings and a $10 billion stock buyback.
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Global resources group BHP Billiton on Monday announced the approval of Rapid Growth Project 2 (RGP2), a $575-million project that will expand the capacity of its Western Australia iron ore operations from 110 million tons per annum (Mtpa) to 118 Mtpa
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WMC Resources Ltd., which is fighting a takeover bid from Xstrata Plc, will give as much as A$1 billion ($760 million) of cash to shareholders as the world&#39;s fifth-largest nickel producer forecast higher-than-expected profit.
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BHP Billiton&#39;s Australian investors will collect $1.5 billion from a buyback announced by the global miner yesterday. But the move will leave foreigners with a stronger presence on the BHP share register because they can&#39;t participate.
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SYDNEY: Anglo-Australian mining group BHP Billiton Ltd. said it had completed an off-market share buyback worth A$2.27b (US$1.77b).
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BHP Billiton Ltd./Plc , the world's biggest mining group, has revived plans for a $40 billion takeover of aluminium producer Alcoa Inc., the Times newspaper said in an unsourced report on Monday.
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Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton say it has made an offer worth $147bn to buy rival Rio Tinto.
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Mining giant BHP Billiton has completed a bigger-than-expected A$2.27 billion (950 million pound) share buyback, driving up its stock price as investors reinvest profits from the tax-efficient deal.
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London&#39;s FTSE 100 opened flat on Monday, with miners helping prop up the senior index after BHP Billiton (NYSE:BHP) announced it would update on its reserves later this week.
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BHP Billiton has brought in more banks to help it find the $70 billion it needs to fund its planned takeover of Rio Tinto , Britain's Sunday Times newspaper reported.
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BHP Billiton sweetened its bid for Rio Tinto Wednesday, lifting its valuation of the mining giant to 147.4 billion dollars as it presses for a mega-takeover to exploit a resources boom driven by China.
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Shares in BHP Billiton Ltd.   , the world's top miner, opened 5.3 percent higher on  Wednesday after it surprised the market with an additional  US$10 billion share buyback.
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MELBOURNE: BHP Billiton Ltd/Plc, the world&#39;s largest diversified miner, said yesterday it would buy back up to A$1.5bil of its Australia-listed shares at a discount to the market price.
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A day after BHP Billiton Ltd/Plc  launched the second costliest corporate takeover in history,  analysts and industry executives reckoned the world's biggest  miner may have to dig a little deeper into its pockets to win  rival Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc .
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Operazione sarebbe organizzata da BHP Billiton e Rio Tinto
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BHP Billiton Limited (BHP) announced today that it would undertake an off-market share buyback of between $1 billion and $1.5 billion.