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Mining firms weighed on London's benchmark index on Wednesday as most metals prices headed south, while London Stock Exchange Group PLC and EasyJet PLC jumped after well-received earnings reports.

Shares of declining banks and resource firms pulled the U.K.'s stock benchmark off its 51/2-year high on Monday, after Chinese industrial-production data missed expectations.

A day after Sam Walsh fronted Rio Tinto's annual meeting in Australia for the first time as chief executive, his counterpart at BHP Billiton, Marius Kloppers, will today spend his last day in charge of day-to-day operations at the world's biggest mining company.

Other equities research analysts have also recently issued reports about the stock.

A number of other firms have also recently commented on BBL. Analysts at Jefferies Group reiterated a buy rating on shares of BHP Billiton plc in a research note to investors on Thursday.

's stock had its "buy" rating restated by analysts at Liberum Capital in a research report issued to clients and investors on Friday, Stock Ratings Network.com reports.

European stock markets shot to their best levels since mid-2008 on Friday after better-than-expected U.S. jobs data, which quashed some fears that the recovery in that nation has stalled.

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Mining and metals group Glencore International PLC has completed its long-awaited merger with Xstrata PLC to form the world's fourth biggest mining company and the world's biggest commodities trader.

BHP Billiton has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Pinto Valley mining operation and the associated San Manuel Arizona Railroad Company to Capstone Mining Corp.

's stock had its "buy" rating restated by equities researchers at Nomura in a report issued on Monday, StockRatingsNetwork reports.

BHP Billiton Ltd. unveiled its latest asset disposal Monday, announcing plans to sell the group's Pinto Valley copper mine and an associated rail unit in Arizona to Canadian base metals producer Capstone Mining Corp.

BHP Billiton has sold a copper mine in the US for $US650 million as the resources giant continues to off-load assets.

A deterioration of global macroeconomic sentiment, the threat of weaker commodity prices, unfavorable weather, the impact of past management missteps and shakeups in top leadership have hurt BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto .

China's rapid expansion over the years has boosted demand for industrial metals, as well as steel iron.

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