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BHP keeping its eyes on costs as margins squeezed

BHP Billiton’s chairman Don Argus and chief executive officer Marius Kloppers have admitted things will be tough for the next year, with Kloppers signalling the company will review operations that become “cashflow negative”.

Kate Haycock

BHP keeping its eyes on costs as margins squeezed

In the wake of BHP calling off its takeover bid for Rio Tinto, and the worldwide fall in commodity and equity prices in the past few weeks, BHP's annual general meeting in Melbourne attracted a throng...

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