Rio Tinto Launches New Debt Reduction Plan for Up To $3 Billion
September 26 2016 - 11:22AM
Dow Jones News
By Razak Musah Baba
LONDON--Miner Rio Tinto PLC (RIO.LN) Monday launched a new debt
reduction program for up to $3 billion as part of the company's
ongoing capital management.
Under the plan, Rio Tinto has issued a redemption notice for
$1.5 billion of its 2017 and 2018 U.S. dollar-denominated notes and
commenced cash tender offers to purchase up to $1.5 billion of its
2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 U.S. dollar-denominated notes.
The Anglo-Australian mining company said it is again taking
advantage of its strong liquidity position to further reduce gross
debt, by launching the bond purchase plan.
Monday's announcement is part of the Rio Tinto Group's ongoing
capital management and follows the successful completion of $4.5
billion cash tender offers earlier this year, the company said.
In April, Rio Tinto launched a program to purchase $1.5 billion
of its 2017 and 2018 notes and in June it announced plans to
purchase $3 billion of its 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022 notes. Both
offers were successfully completed. In June, $1.5 billion of notes
also matured and were repaid with cash, it said.
Rio Tinto shares in London at 1445 GMT were down 29 pence, or
1.1%, at 2,492 pence, valuing the company at 34.25 billion pounds
($44.39 billion).
Write to Razak Musah Baba at razak.baba@wsj.com; Twitter:
@Raztweet
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
September 26, 2016 11:07 ET (15:07 GMT)
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