BHP—Nasser said the tailwind is moderating—not that it is turning into a headwind. Moreover, as BHP cuts back on capital expenditures, it will have more cash available for share buybacks and dividends, which ought to help stabilize the stock price.
All told, it’s not a pretty picture, but I don’t see this as a sell signal or the undoing of the main premise for owning the stock.
“The efficient-market hypothesis may be
the foremost piece of B.S. ever promulgated
in any area of human knowledge!”