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New man in the Rio chair after China rift walkout

17.03.09
Rio Tinto has made a second stab at appointing a new chairman, promoting cigarette man Jan du Plessis to the £1 million-a-year role... more

Still time for Rio to dig its way out of this spoil heap

19.02.09
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

New blow for Rio Tinto's China deal

18.02.09
Mining: Rio Tinto's attempt to ram through a sale of up to 18% of the company to the Chinese was dealt another hammer blow... more

Rio Tinto's fundraising deal with Chinalco sparks fury

12.02.09
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

Chinalco poised to pour £14bn into Rio

11.02.09
Mining: Aluminium Corp of China, (Chinalco) is expected to invest up to $20 billion in Rio Tinto to gain more access to commodities... more

'Speak up' is the lesson from Rio

10.02.09
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

BA shares look ready for take-off now, says Merrill

10.02.09
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 shares head downhill in wake of boardroom rift

10.02.09
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

Rio's next chairman quits after board row

09.02.09
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

Rio Tinto feels pain of Chinese steel slump

15.01.09
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

Warring TNK-BP appoints Schröder

15.01.09
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

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