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Tribeca plans to target BHP board overhaul

Bloomberg BHP Billiton Ltd.’s board is being targeted for a sweeping overhaul by Tribeca Global Natural Resources Fund, opening a potential new front in the burgeoning activist campaign against the world’s biggest mining company. The Sydney-based hedge fund, which last month joined billionaire Paul Singer’s Elliott Management Corp. in calling for changes aimed at shifting strategy at BHP, believes about ...

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Record London skyscraper values mask ‘property wobbles’

Bloomberg Two miles southeast of London’s Cheesegrater tower, which sold last month for a record price, there’s proof that all is not calm in the city’s property market. At Canada Water, developer British Land Co., which also owned half of the skyscraper, has seen the value of land slashed by almost 11 percent as investors lose their appetite for riskier ...

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As Trump disrupts, Moscow celebrates

When Russian officials and analysts here talk about the US investigation of their alleged hacking of the 2016 campaign, two themes predominate: They’re flattered that their country is seen as such a powerful threat, and also amazed that America is so preoccupied with the scandal. This is the official line, to be sure, but it was also expressed by several ...

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