ASX Announcements
Completion of Acquisition of Filo and JV with Lundin Mining
Asset Acquisition, Progress Report
- Jan 16, 2025
- 3 pages
Notification of cessation of securities - BHP
Appendix 3H (Notification of cessation of securities)
- Jan 14, 2025
- 4 pages
Notification regarding unquoted securities - BHP
Appendix 3G (Notification of Issue, Conversion or Payment up of Unquoted Equity Securities)
- Jan 10, 2025
- 5 pages
Today
How Trump’s trade war leaves some ASX companies exposed
Although the local technology sector has the largest revenue exposure to North America, strategists are more concerned about the heavyweight mining sector.
- Alex Gluyas
Yesterday
Why Platypus got out of BHP but kept Rio Tinto
Portfolio manager Stephen Butel explains why he’s weary of the mining giant and names two ASX-stocks that are flying beneath the market’s radar.
- Joanne Tran
This Month
Homesick FIFO workers earning $190k stir talk of Pilbara unionisation
Sweeping industrial relations changes have inflamed fears among miners that the Pilbara will revert to its recalcitrant past. Unions want a seat at the table in the resource-rich region.
- Mark Wembridge and Tom Rabe
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Australia risks worst of both worlds in Trump tariff war
Markets and local business leaders were sure Trump’s tariffs threats were a negotiating tactic. A serious rethink is suddenly needed, especially Down Under.
- James Thomson
Expect more big global mining deals, says former Anglo American chief
Mark Cutifani says the world’s biggest miners are fighting for the attention of investors from less capital-intensive sectors such as technology.
- Peter Ker
January
Qld hits pause on wind farms, and big miners are among those worried
Resource-rich Queensland had become a poster child for the energy transition, but early signs from the new LNP government have created confusion about the state’s energy plans.
- James Hall
Peabody boss in Japanese charm offensive for $US3.8b Anglo coal deal
There’s plenty of work still going around in the blockbuster deal, between the Japanese minorities and external bidders waiting for any further selldowns.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Unions want ‘same-looking job, same pay’: BHP
BHP lawyers have urged the umpire to adopt a “big picture” approach to exemptions from same job, same pay laws for the company’s labour hire firms.
- David Marin-Guzman
Investors bank on iron ore saving dividends in 2025
An unexpectedly strong start for the steel-making commodity has raised hopes that the major miners will provide a larger source of income for investors in 2025.
- Joanne Tran
BHP copper output jumps as electrification era picks up pace
Soaring production at its Escondida operation in Chile has pushed up the mining giant’s first-half copper output, validating its bet on the hot metal.
- Updated
- Mark Wembridge
The gap between providing ‘labour’ and ‘services’ could be $49k a year
Workers employed by BHP subsidiaries and labour-hire firms are paid much less to do the same work as its direct workforce, unions argue in a major test case.
- Euan Black
- Opinion
- Industrial relations
FWC case tests Labor’s ‘same job, same pay’ word to BHP
The government assured business the legislation was limited to labour hire providers. Now the minister says the concepts of labour hire and service contractors are “not mutually exclusive”.
- Graeme Watson
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
$260b Rio Tinto, Glencore mega-deal would sideline Australia
Follow the money, and it’s hard to see how this mining merger would say much good about Australia’s future.
- Anthony Macdonald
Rio Tinto-Glencore merger would surpass BHP in size
Combining the two businesses would form the world’s second-largest copper producer, in a land grab for the most in-demand metal of the electrification era.
- Mark Wembridge and Elouise Fowler
Chemist Warehouse set to shake up ASX 200
Sigma’s beefed up market cap after its $30 billion Chemist Warehouse merger will reduce passive investors’ exposure to other blue-chips such as CBA, BHP and CSL.
- Updated
- Alex Gluyas
- Analysis
- Mergers & acquisitions
Why the US wants BHP and Rio to get crazy rich in the Congo
BHP and Rio Tinto see just one problem with the big new copper mine Robert Friedland has built in the DRC. But the US government reckons it has the solution
- Peter Ker
Who’s got a big miner lurking on their share register?
The next time a big miner like BHP, Rio or Fortescue lobs a takeover bid for a small explorer, the target will probably be one of the companies on this list.
- Peter Ker
December 2024
Gold miners see silver lining in big lithium and nickel layoffs
The mothballing of large West Australian critical minerals projects has come at the same time as a surge in demand for production of the precious metal.
- Mark Wembridge
$22b budget blowout; WFH is an ASX mess; The $3b Aussie wealth manager
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
BHP’s Samarco class action shrinks as Brazilians quit
Four municipalities have exited a $36 billion compensation claim against the mining giant in the British courts in favour of alternative compensation.
- Peter Ker and Hans van Leeuwen