{"id":404536,"date":"2021-03-12T09:07:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T03:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=404536"},"modified":"2021-03-12T09:36:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T04:06:50","slug":"bhp-says-acquisitions-unlikely-near-term-given-high-commodity-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bhp-says-acquisitions-unlikely-near-term-given-high-commodity-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"BHP says acquisitions unlikely near-term given high commodity prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BHP Group is unlikely to make any major acquisitions in the near-term given rocketing commodity prices, and will instead focus on exploration and wringing more value out of existing assets, its chief executive said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s biggest listed miner is looking to grow its exposure to &#8220;future facing commodities&#8221; or those expected to be cornerstones of the world&#8217;s transition towards cleaner energy. <\/p>\n<p>That includes copper, whose conductive properties efficiently transport power, and nickel used in batteries for electric vehicles &#8211; for which BHP expects prices to go higher still.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHP Group is unlikely to make any major acquisitions in the near-term given rocketing commodity prices, and will instead focus on exploration and wringing more value out of existing assets, its chief executive said on Thursday. The world&#8217;s biggest listed miner is looking to grow its exposure to &#8220;future facing commodities&#8221; or those expected to be cornerstones of the world&#8217;s transition towards cleaner energy. That includes copper, whose conductive properties efficiently transport power, and nickel used in batteries for electric vehicles &#8211; for which BHP expects prices to go higher still.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}