Shares in Glencore are poised to remain in the spotlight before Monday’s London open, following a Reuters report highlighting growing pressure on BHP to react to Rio Tinto’s takeover discussions.
On a holiday-shortened Christmas Eve session, Rio Tinto shares were broadly steady after pushing to fresh highs earlier this week, helped by a sharp rally in metals—especially copper, which has surged through the psychological $12,000-per-tonne threshold. Financial Times+2Reuters+2
Rio Tinto plc shares are ending 2025 with momentum. The mining heavyweight—best known for its iron ore machine but increasingly framed as a copper growth story—has pushed to a fresh 52-week high in London trading, helped by a sharp move in metals prices and a steady drumbeat of company updates on strategy, production targets, and project execution. London South East+1
Rio Tinto plc stock is heading into the final stretch of 2025 with a familiar recipe powering sentiment: firmer commodity prices, a year-end rally in miners, and a renewed corporate strategy pitch centered on simplification, cost discipline, and copper growth.
December 20, 2025 — Rio Tinto plc stock heads into the weekend with a lot of narrative gravity: a new CEO’s strategy reboot, fresh spending on long-life iron ore supply, an Australian government move to protect a key aluminium asset, and a legal overhang tied to sanctions-era fallout.