BHP Boss Quits after Company Profit Halved!

(News Article direct from The Yahoo!7News on 20 February 2013.)





BHP Billiton chief
executive Marius Kloppers will stand aside in May, after the company's profit
halved.

The world's biggest
miner posted a 58 per cent fall in first-half net profit to $US4.24 billion,
while the company's underlying earnings - which excludes one-off write-downs
and gains - dropped 43.4 per cent to $US5.68