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    BHP Billiton Profits Drop 35 Percent

    Investing News Network
    Aug. 22, 2012 12:16PM PST
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    CNBC reported BHP Billiton (NYSE:BHP,ASX:BHP) delayed its Olympic Dam mine after a 35 percent drop in profits.

    CNBC reported BHP Billiton (NYSE:BHP,ASX:BHP) delayed its Olympic Dam mine after a 35 percent drop in profits.

    As quoted in the market news:

    BHP reported its first annual profit fall in three years in the face of rising costs and falling commodity prices, wrapping up a torrid earnings season for the world’s biggest miners.

    They were all battered by weaker prices for iron ore, copper, coal, nickel and aluminium as economic growth in big-buyer China slows to its weakest pace in a decade.

    Click here to read the full CNBC report.

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