25th Jan 2008 11:33
Morgan Stanley Securities Ld(EPT)25 January 2008 AMENDMENT TO ANNOUNCEMENT 4960M RELEASED AT 15:11 ON 24 JANUARY 2008 DEALINGS BY CONNECTED EXEMPT PRINCIPAL TRADERS WITH RECOGNISED INTERMEDIARY STATUS DEALING IN A CLIENT-SERVING CAPACITY (Rule 38.5(a) of the Takeover Code) 1. KEY INFORMATION Name of exempt principal trader Morgan Stanley Securities Limited Company dealt in Rio Tinto Plc Class of relevant security to which the Ordinary Sharesdealings being disclosed relate (Note 1) Date of dealing 23 January 2008 2. DEALINGS (Note 2) (a) Purchases and sales Total number of securities purchased Highest price paid (Note 3) GBP Lowest price paid (Note 3) GBP 590,743 44.0800 40.8200 Total number of securities sold Highest price received (Note 3) GBP Lowest price received (Note 3) GBP 1,282,243 43.9400 39.1666 (b) Derivatives transactions (other than options) Product name, Long/short (Note 4) Number of securities (Note 5) Price per unit (Note 3) GBPe.g. CFD CFD LONG 22,813 41.5691CFD LONG 540,349 81.1255CFD SHORT 506 41.5900CFD SHORT 13,378 41.9020CFD SHORT 388 41.9020CFD LONG 63,000 39.2233CFD LONG 5,000 40.8535CFD LONG 555 41.0319CFD LONG 6,188 41.1324CFD LONG 1,054 41.1324CFD LONG 81,600 41.2906CFD LONG 38,400 41.2906CFD LONG 825 41.4871CFD LONG 3,310 41.4871CFD LONG 7,683 41.4871CFD LONG 407 41.4871CFD LONG 101 41.4871CFD LONG 944 41.4871CFD LONG 19,200 41.5667CFD LONG 40,800 41.5667CFD LONG 827,946 41.5900CFD LONG 50,000 41.6941CFD LONG 120,000 41.7560CFD LONG 5,791 41.7918CFD LONG 60,000 41.7918CFD LONG 140,000 41.8954CFD LONG 3,285 41.8954CFD LONG 60,000 41.9185CFD LONG 60,000 41.9580CFD LONG 60,000 41.9615CFD LONG 206 42.0173CFD LONG 6,894 42.1003CFD LONG 6,310 42.1003CFD LONG 341 42.1311CFD LONG 21,412 42.1311CFD LONG 3,131 42.2373CFD LONG 1,382 42.2661CFD LONG 1,314 42.2707CFD LONG 580 42.3080CFD LONG 366 43.0289CFD LONG 39,164 43.0289CFD LONG 29,970 43.0289CFD LONG 11,469 43.0763CFD LONG 1,000 43.2624CFD LONG 11,322 43.2957CFD LONG 15,637 43.2957CFD LONG 1,980 43.3063CFD LONG 6,280 43.3063CFD LONG 1,740 43.3063CFD LONG 1,260 43.3138CFD LONG 263,265 81.1255CFD LONG 119,449 81.1255CFD LONG 16,904 81.1255CFD LONG 28,503 81.1255CFD LONG 12,147 81.1255CFD LONG 18,845 81.1255CFD LONG 42,686 81.1255CFD LONG 9,837 81.1255CFD LONG 28,713 81.1255CFD SHORT 581 41.1844CFD SHORT 508 41.1844CFD SHORT 101 41.1844CFD SHORT 825 41.1844CFD SHORT 4,135 41.1844CFD SHORT 4,723 41.1844CFD SHORT 2,000 41.3030CFD SHORT 376 41.3639CFD SHORT 827,946 41.5900CFD SHORT 5,840 41.5941CFD SHORT 77,350 41.5952CFD SHORT 1,770 41.8538CFD SHORT 35,823 41.8806CFD SHORT 33,898 41.8806CFD SHORT 21,627 41.9746CFD SHORT 3,480 42.0043CFD SHORT 12,560 42.0043CFD SHORT 3,960 42.0043CFD SHORT 42 42.2849CFD SHORT 3,407 43.0581CFD SHORT 206 43.3576CFD SHORT 745 43.4745CFD SHORT 2,386 43.4745CFD SHORT 28,713 81.1255CFD SHORT 9,837 81.1255CFD SHORT 28,503 81.1255CFD SHORT 42,686 81.1255CFD SHORT 18,845 81.1255CFD SHORT 12,147 81.1255CFD SHORT 16,904 81.1255CFD SHORT 119,449 81.1255CFD SHORT 263,265 81.1255CFD LONG 421 39.1666CFD LONG 7,997 39.1666CFD SHORT 14,250 42.7828CFD SHORT 24,000 43.5477CFD SHORT 28,750 42.7828CFD SHORT 30,000 41.9447 (c) Options transactions in respect of existing securities (i) Writing, selling, purchasing or varying Product name, Writing, selling, Number of securities Exercise Type, e.g. Expiry Option money purchasing, to which the option American, date paid/received pere.g. call option varying etc. relates (Note 5) price GBP European etc. unit (Note 3) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A (ii) Exercising Product name, e.g. call option Number of securities Exercise price per unit (Note 3)N/A N/A N/A 3. OTHER INFORMATION Agreements, arrangements or understandings relating to options or derivatives Full details of any agreement, arrangement or understanding between the persondisclosing and any other person relating to the voting rights of any relevantsecurities under any option referred to on this form or relating to the votingrights or future acquisition or disposal of any relevant securities to which anyderivative referred to on this form is referenced. If none, this should bestated. NONE Date of disclosure 25 January 2008 Contact name Zafrhan Fahmy Telephone number 020 7677 1871 Name of offeree/offeror with which connected Rio Tinto PlcNature of connection (Note 6) Advisor Notes The Notes on Form 38.5(a) can be viewed on the Takeover Panel's website atwww.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
Rio Tinto