This Month
Death of DEI won’t stop Sportsbet’s Barni Evans
Australia’s largest online gambling company seems intent on rainbow washing away the misery.
- Mark Di Stefano
December 2024
The simple ways top CEOs find balance in their lives
The first step to achieving work/life balance is realising how hard it is. These bosses have some easy tips to start with.
- James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald
Rio Tinto sinks $3.9b into Argentina lithium project
Rio Tinto has doubled down on its lithium bet with a big investment in its Rincon lithium brine project, months after agreeing to buy Arcadium Lithium.
- Elouise Fowler and Mark Wembridge
Rio Tinto rules out unification, mulls ASX share issuance
Rio Tinto boss Jakob Stausholm says he wants to bolster the Australian side of the dual-company structure, not unify it with the British side.
- Peter Ker
October 2024
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why Rio Tinto wants to be a new cornerstone for the lithium sector
Rio Tinto CEO Jakob Stausholm argues the miner’s long-term investment approach and sheer size can help stabilise the volatile lithium market.
- James Thomson
- Opinion
- Mining
Why Australian miners are feeling anxious
The market and the miners were primed for good news from Beijing but they didn’t get it. Now it’s back to basics – or bids like Rio Tinto’s for Arcadium.
- Jennifer Hewett
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Rio tilt at Arcadium is a decades-long bet on lithium
Rio Tinto can sniff a bargain in beaten-down miner Arcadium. But the sector remains divisive, and investors won’t want CEO Jakob Stausholm to overpay.
- James Thomson
September 2024
Fortescue puts words in Rio’s mouth
If any Rio Tinto shareholders think their usually understated chief is sounding a lot like Andrew Forrest, well, they’d be right.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
Uranium mine shareholders try to delay Rio Tinto capital raise
The Takeovers Panel confirmed two of the uranium miner’s shareholders are trying to delay an $880 million capital raise backed by major shareholder, Rio Tinto.
- Elouise Fowler
- Opinion
- Class action
Class action skewers Rio Tinto’s Bougainville redemption
A secretive company is disrupting efforts to finally make amends for the environmental devastation caused by its copper mine in Bougainville some 30 years ago.
- Tony Boyd
August 2024
Rio Tinto poised to take control of uranium project clean-up
Rio Tinto is attempting to end decades of disputes with minority investors, traditional owners and governments over the project in the Northern Territory.
- Elouise Fowler
July 2024
Inflation picks up; 600 Rex jobs at risk; Navy’s ‘criminal price tag’
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Spluttering China the big risk to Rio Tinto’s new growth era
Rio boss Jakob Stausholm says the miner is at a growth inflection point and is relaxed about China’s apparent weakness. But sentiment towards resources is souring.
- James Thomson
Who are the highest paid ASX 200 CEOs?
New research shows that ASX 100 CEOs earn on average 50 times more than the average Australian adult.
- Hannah Wootton
June 2024
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
How a shake-up could unlock $40b for Rio Tinto investors
BHP cleaned up its outdated corporate structure and can now do things like bid for Anglo American. There is pressure building on Rio Tinto to consider doing the same.
- Anthony Macdonald
Mining’s push for gender diversity threatened by ‘Andrew Tate’ effect
A belief that women are being promoted based on gender, not ability, has permeated to middle management and board level, according to some female leaders.
- Harry Dempsey
Twiggy’s hot air always seems to pass muster
The wind farm Apple walked away from now has environmental approval, having promised to destroy a little less of a koala habitat.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
May 2024
- Analysis
- Due diligence
Time for Rio Tinto dual-listing rethink with Anglo American in play
Trading the spread between the value of Rio Tinto’s dual-listed London and Australian shares is usually the province of specialist arbitrage funds. But BHP’s tilt at Anglo American has it back in focus.
- Jemima Whyte
OECD warns sticky inflation means rates higher for longer
The warning came as CEOs deliver upbeat assessment of the economy and financial markets push out expectations for rate cuts to May or June 2025, potentially after the next federal election.
- Ronald Mizen, James Eyers, Lucas Baird, Simon Evans, Tess Bennett and Carrie LaFrenz
Rio Tinto chairman quiet on Anglo bid, eyes copper profits
Dominic Barton would not comment on whether the company was considering making a rival bid for Anglo American.
- Tess Bennett