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Rio Tinto

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Web site www.riotinto.com
HeadquartersLondon
United Kingdom
Ceo Jean-Sébastien Jacques
Revenue40. 52 billion USD (2018)
Subsidiaries Aluminium division of Rio Tinto
Parent organizations Rio Tinto
Did you knowRio Tinto is the third-largest mining company in the world by revenue (45. 1 billion US dollars).
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About Rio Tinto


Rio Tinto is an Anglo-Australian multinational and one of the world's largest metals and mining corporations. The company was founded in 1873, when a multinational consortium of investors purchased a mine complex on the Rio Tinto, in Huelva, Spain, from the Spanish government.

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...By Antoinette RadfordBBC NewsOn 25 January, when mining company Rio Tinto reported that one of their Caesium-137 radioactive capsules had gone missing, Western Australian authorities faced a seemingly impossible task...

Missing radioactive capsule found in Australia

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... Mining giant Rio Tinto apologised for losing the device, which could have posed a serious danger if handled...

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... On Thursday, Rio Tinto became the first major mining company to cut ties with Russian businesses, and Japan s Sony and Nintendo suspended deliveries of gaming consoles...

Coronavirus: Global shares fall for the fifth day in a row

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... be applied to Miner Rio Tinto lost 1...

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Coronavirus: Global shares fall for the fifth day in a row

Feb 16,2020 7:55 am

stocks are around like around The World , for a fifth day amid growing concerns about the Corona Virus outbreak.

In London, in one of the largest, in General, multi-national companies 1. 1% in early trade, mirroring falls in a similar way to other European markets.

In Asia, the Japanese Nikkei 225 index lost 0. 8% and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong fell 0. 7%.

It Comes as large companies warn could see the sharp losses of The Virus from spreading.

the division of the markets of days of unrest, are faced with the FTSE 100 hitting a 12-month low on Tuesday and the major U.S. indexes losing More Than 3% overnight.

investors have been fleeing to safe-haven assets such as gold, The Price hit $1,650 per ounce on Wednesday - in the vicinity of the seven-year-highs seen This Week .

the markets are slow to recognize The Threat of the coronavirus, but more and more companies are now reporting on the potential, it is on sale, you as a buyer stay at home and raw materials and parts that get stuck in the ports.

On Wednesday, the drinks giant Diageo, owner of Guinness and Johnnie Walker Whisky, said coronavirus could. cost £200 loss of profit this year Its shares fell 1. 4% in London.

'be applied to'

Miner Rio Tinto lost 1. 8% after it warned, could be months, make the disease, their operations in the next six.

Food group Danone cut its forecast for 2020 for the distribution, the debt of the outbreak and the slower global growth, although its shares rose 1. 4%.

"I think we should expect that in this environment of increased volatility and concern," Rebecca McVittie, investment director at Fidelity International , told the BBC's Today programme.

said that countries which supplied parts for complex products such as cars and computers have been increasingly affected by the outbreak.

"We have now seen that there are more cases of coronavirus in South Korea . This is a country that plays a very important role, for example, in tech supply chains," She Said .

"I think we should expect that the markets will probably be down. "

The moves came as the outbreak spread outside China, with Iran, South Korea and Italy report an increase in cases.

Approximately 77,000 people in China, where The Virus emerged last year, were infected and almost 2,600 died. Outside of China, More Than 1,200 cases have been confirmed in 30 countries, and More Than 20 deaths have been.



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Source of news: bbc.com

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