'We wouldn't be enthused': BHP's $30 billion dilemma

By David Stringer and Ruth Liew
Updated October 19 2017 - 1:08pm, first published 1:04pm

BHP Billiton's new chairman Ken MacKenzie is grappling with a simmering campaign by activist shareholders -- moving too far to appease them could risk unsettling debt investors who own the mining giant's $US24 billion ($30 billion) of bonds.

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