Rio Tinto Group has scrapped plans to raise as much as $5 billion in a share sale following pushback from investors, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO) has ended plans to raise as much as $5B in a share sale following pushback from investors, Bloomberg reported Friday. Rio (NYSE:RIO) executives had floated the possibility of an equity offering in recent investor meetings,

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