Something has gone terribly wrong at Rio Tinto. The chart of the share price looks like a spoil mountain outside one of its mines, and it has achieved the impressive feat of alienating its biggest shareholders by not asking them for money. It's now on the brink of a blunder that threatens its whole future. ... more
Mining: The Chinese government has been handed a seat at the mining industry's top table by a desperate Rio Tinto which was forced to sell prized assets to state-owned Chinalco in a exchange for an injection of nearly $20 billion cash... more
One criticism heard increasingly of some of the banking boards worst-affected by the credit crisis is that, in the run-up to it, they all behaved like sheep, with no one baa-ing out of turn... more
Rio Tinto dropped 55p to 1865p today as the miner remained locked in talks with its biggest shareholder Aluminium Corporation of China (Chinalco) about a massive cash injection... more
Merrill Lynch has taken the bold step of calling the bottom of the market in shares of British Airways, which was flying high among blue-chips today with a rise of 9.5p at 148.8p... more
Rio Tinto was left hunting for a new chairman after the man it had lined up for the job suddenly quit the board following a bust-up with fellow directors... more
Energy: The uphill battle facing Jim Leng, the new chairman of Rio Tinto, has been underlined with the mining giant reporting one of its biggest-ever quarterly falls in iron-ore production... more
Energy: BP’S troubled Russian arm has appointed ex-German leader Gerhard Schröder to its board in a bid to end the warring which saw it become a laughing stock last year... more
London Gateway, the £1.5bn container port under construction on the Thames at Thurrock, will have capacity to unload six of the world's largest ships at one time and have as much impact on the capital as a new airport or half a dozen Westfield shopping centres
With London Fashion Week kicking off on Friday, British designer Matthew Williamson tells Rosamund Urwin about breaking up with his ex, post-show partying and his new model man
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