Mr Slim has recently accumulated a stake of almost 7% in the Gray Lady's publisher.
There is also speculation of Yahoo being bought by Alibaba, in which Yahoo has a stake of 43%.
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Reports suggested British Aerospace may take a stake of around 30% in Saab Aircraft, a Swedish aircraft maker.
He followed this with an open offer for a stake of another 20%.
It will hold an auction later this year for a stake of around 25% in a power plant near St Petersburg.
He and his family wanted a stake of at least one third in the new group to ensure veto power on key decisions.
O. of Digital Sky Technologies, a Moscow-based Internet investment company that has reportedly acquired a stake of nearly ten per cent in Facebook.
He bought a stake of the company that would become Lake Louise Ski Area in 1974 and Mr. Locke now controls the operation.
That's a stake of less than 0.3 percent, but their rebuke of Hammergren and Thompson could lead other frustrated HP shareholders to turn against them.
Certainly the Vatican does not, according to Consob, Italy's securities regulator, have a stake of 2% or more in the company, which would require disclosure.
Under French accounting rules, a stake of this size would require the parent bank to treat Mr Pinault's operations as related in its own accounts.
The Russian government has kept a stake of just over 50% in the company, which is seen as a symbol of the country's welcome of "responsible capitalism".
Warren Buffett, a celebrated American investor and the holder of a stake of almost 10% in Kraft, fired an unexpected salvo of his own on January 5th.
Nasdaq also tried to buy the London Stock Exchange, but its bid is stalled by British takeover rules, although it does hold a stake of just under 30%.
But he has not moved fast enough for activist investors such as Mr Marcus (with a stake of 10.3%) and Guy Wyser-Pratte, an American raider (with a 5% stake).
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Slim acquired a stake of less than 2% in the New York-based asset management firm, according to the telecom tycoon's spokesman, Arturo Elias Ayub, even though he wouldn't confirm the amount.
This will be a new private-sector investment bank (though, presumably for PR reasons, officials prefer to call it a "wholesale bank"), in which the government will have a stake of around a third.
Other policies and special interest groups help entrench these policies, whether we are talking about for-profit prisons, prison guard unions, or citizen groups, many people have a stake of one sort or another in keeping the prisons full.
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Shares in Allied Domecq jumped on reports that Warren Buffett , through his Berkshire Hathaway investment vehicle, is spending some of its cash pile buying a stake of over 3% in the British firm, the world's second-largest wine and spirits group, which also owns the Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins food chains.
Merger Monday rolls on with an offer for a majority stake of Timberland and a big technology acquisition by Honeywell.
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On Monday new reports hit Wall Street that JohnThainJohn Thain, Merrill Lynch 's chief executive, is in talks with Chinese and Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, with the possibility of selling a large stake of the company in order to raise capital.
On Monday new reports hit Wall Street that John Thain , Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people )'s chief executive, is in talks with Chinese and Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, with the possibility of selling a large stake of the company in order to raise capital.
The formula: have management borrow money against the assets and cash flow of a company, and use that money to buy a controlling stake of it.
Gemfields owns a majority stake of the Kagem mine in Zambia, which produces emeralds and amethysts, a mine in Mozambique for ruby, and prospecting licenses for other gemstones in Madagascar.
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One of the bankers cited by Vedomosti said that one of Evraz' biggest shareholders, Alexander Abramov--also one of Russia's wealthiest industrialists --was not quite ready to let Abramovich buy a majority stake, but could be willing for him to buy a minority controlling stake of 25% plus one share.
And as a revolution races through the streets of the Middle East and North Africa, the entire world has a stake in the aspirations of a generation that longs to determine its own destiny.
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The pair will also acquire a minority stake of 3% in the listed company.
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The idea is to take a shareholding stake of nearly 10% in the Bank of England.
Moreover, they must be minority partners, with a maximum stake of 33% now and 49% from 2005.
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