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BHP dividend cut heralds the death of the yield play

2016-02-27 06:14:30| Grocery - Topix.net

The cut came as no surprise to institutional investors, many of whom had been urging BHP and its old rival Rio Tinto to rethink the size of their dividends. That didn't prevent a good old-fashioned shareprice rout when the bad news finally landed; BHP shares fell 11 per cent in three days as yield-focused investors accepted that one of Australia's biggest companies was no longer satisfying their lust for yield.

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