Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto surprised investors by more than doubling its full-year dividend and promising to return $5 billion to shareholders over the next two years to soak up bumper cashflows after it reported a record second-half profit.
The size of the buyback an…

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Before we get on to today’s non-property related edition of Money Morning a very brief follow-up to yesterday’s edition.
First of all, we’ve re-read it, and do you know what, it seems a little disjointed. After two weeks of a property famine, on reflection we think we tried to cram in too much – must [...]

Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto said Thursday it had secured its first-ever iron ore sale to India, a “ground-breaking” development it described as significant for its future.
Iron ore chief Sam Walsh said Rio had sold a 160,000 metric-ton shipment to Indian steelmaker Essar for delivery later this month.
“To me, this is a ground-breaking sale and [...]