{"id":709,"date":"2026-05-02T19:30:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ac7caa60cf6515f9995df79f8fd9639f"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","slug":"bhps-price-deal-with-china-leaves-mark-on-rivals-and-minnows-alike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"BHP\u2019s price deal with China leaves mark on rivals and minnows alike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bhps-price-deal-with-china-leaves-mark-on-rivals-and-minnows-alike.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"_123cb70dac8b2d4e-articleBylineToolsWrapper\">\n<section class=\"_123cb70dac8b2d4e-articleMetadata\">\n<p><time data-testid=\"ArticleTimestamp-time\">May 3, 2026 \u2013 12.05pm<\/time><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<p>On Australia\u2019s western edge, a tiny iron ore miner is reading the tea leaves left on the negotiating table by iron ore giant BHP and China\u2019s muscular central buying agency.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to know exactly what was agreed behind closed doors at the high-stakes talks, but reports suggest the big miner has ceded more influence to China in setting prices, a move that could lead to more ore being priced in Chinese currency.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 3, 2026 \u2013 12.05pm On Australia\u2019s western edge, a tiny iron ore miner is reading the tea leaves left on the negotiating table by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}