VOL. XXXVI

NO. 9

30-NOVEMBER-1992

Financial and Banking News

FOREIGN INVESTMENT

KIO to Sell Majority Shares in Chemical Companies to Freeport McMoRan

Grupo Torras, the principal Spanish investment arm of the Kuwait InvestmentOffice (KIO), is to sell a 55% share in two chemical subsidiaries to the UScompany Freeport McMoRan. The US company is expected to pay $62mn for its stakein Fesa Enfersa and $57mn for the stake in Rio Tinto. Both companies arepresently owned by Ercros, the company which has...