It came as stock traders scrambled when Porsche, a rival seeking to build one of Europe's great car dynasties, revealed it had increased its holdings in VW, giving it an economic stake equal to about 75percentt of the company's voting shares.
The sale of the stake, equal to less than one one-hundredth of 1 percent of News Corp.'s market value of about $58 billion, is unlikely to have a direct financial impact on the company.
Germany then demanded a stake in EADS equal to that held by the French.
According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Cargill's stake was equal to 451,868 common shares.
Pershing said it had also invested in Target swaps and options, which combined with the stock give the fund an economic exposure equal to a 12.6percentt stake.
If a team cannot afford a new stadium and has to turn to the public for financing, the public should receive a stake in the team equal to what it spent on the stadium.
In doing so Bowie conferred some of Taylor's legendary sex appeal on his own personality, and staked his own claim as a superstar equal to the legend.
A deal was reached only after a meeting this afternoon of the two banks' supervisory boards, at which it was agreed to give the smaller GZ Bank, formed from a 1999 merger of SGZ Bank and GZB Bank, an equal stake to that of the larger DG Bank.
(Public records show Chen is Baijia's second largest shareholder; his stake is about equal to that of his nephew's, Su Jinmo, who is Baijia's president and chairman).
