VOL. XXXII

NO. 1

10-OCTOBER-1988

Financial and Banking News

BRITISH GOVERNMENT ORDERS KIO TO REDUCE BP STAKE TO 9.9%

The British Government last week performed a notable feat of legal chicaneryby invoking its belief in free market principles to justify a controversialdecision forcing the Kuwait Investment Office (KIO) to divest the bulk of itsstake - acquired on the open market - in British Petroleum (BP). Acting on therecommendation of the British Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC), Lord...