2217 GMT - Rio Tinto CEO Simon Trott is likely to use the miner's capital-markets day on Thursday to underscore a pivot toward simplicity by streamlining its structure, reducing costs, and prioritizing cash generation, Morgan Stanley says. "This should be well received, but we suspect this is already fully priced in at current levels," analyst Rahul Anand says. The analysts' base case is that Rio Tinto provides clear, quantifiable targets for reducing operating expenses and capex across its portfolio. The aim would be to improve free cash flow by an average of US$500 million-US$1.0 billion annually over the medium to longer term. A bull case would involve Rio Tinto signalling a more than US$1.0 billion annual improvement in free cash flow, Morgan Stanley says. It has an equal-weight call on Rio Tinto. (david.winning@wsj.com; @dwinningWSJ)

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