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The world’s biggest mining company is pulling in its investment horns. BHP Billiton chairperson Jac Nasser says that the investment climate has changed since the company spoke of spending $80-billion on project growth by 2015. “As much as some wish it wasn’t, the resources business has always been and will always be a cyclical business,” Nasser says.

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