Friday, September 17, 1999
TRISTATE MARKET SPOTLIGHT
Time Warner may sell satellite stake
Time Warner Inc. rose $3.25, or 5.6 percent, to $61.75 and traded as high as $62.50 on Thursday.
The world's largest media company and the Cincinnati cable TV provider is in talks to sell its 10 percent stake in CanalSatellite, the satellite-television unit of Canal Plus SA (AN FP), Bloomberg News reports. The sale would reportedly bring Time Warner a profit of about $100 million.
About 8.56 million shares changed hands on Thursday. That compared with the 13-week average daily trading volume of 3 million shares.
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