Feb 23 (Reuters) - Russian aluminium giant Rusal almost matched forecasts with a 42 percent jump in fourth-quarter core earnings on Friday, helped by higher aluminium prices.
Hong-Kong listed Rusal said fourth-quarter earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) rose to $586 million from $412 million in the last quarter of 2016. Analysts had expected core earnings of $598 million. Rusal, the world's second-largest aluminium producer after China's Hongqiao , said that its fourth-quarter revenue rose 35 percent to $2.75 billion.
(Reporting By Shashwat Pradhan in Bengaluru; editing by Richard Pullin)
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