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Mexico City - The investment firm owned by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has purchased a 1% stake in Citigroup, the financial giant recently rescued by the US government, an analyst close to the transaction said on Tuesday.
The stake - amounting to around 26 million shares, worth around $150bn - is "a portfolio investment of Grupo Financiero Inbursa," the analyst said, requesting anonymity.
The US government's more than $300bn rescue of Citigroup late on Sunday sparked a frenzy on the markets, with Wall Street and European stock markets soaring as investors cheered the news.
The deal leaves Washington with the burden of the bank's potential losses of up to $306bn and responsibility to inject capital of $20bn, which follows a previous $25bn infusion.
US-based Citi operates in more than 100 countries and, with more than $2 trillion in assets, is widely viewed as too big to be allowed to fail.
Slim, a Mexican businessman largely focused on the telecommunications industry, was ranked second richest person in the world by Forbes in 2008, with a fortune estimated at more than $50bn.
- AFP