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Oil the cause of BHP-Billiton’s troubled waters

5 March 2016

9:00 AM

5 March 2016

9:00 AM

Until late last year, BHP was sticking to its promise of ‘progressive dividend’ increases. This effectively, if innocently, misled investors, like me, who ignored widespread analyst rejections of CEO Andrew Mackenzie’s dividend assurances and bought BHP shares for the big yield, only to see the dividend cut by 75 per cent in February’s interim result.

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