divestiture
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A sale of Castrol, which BP said it was reviewing back in February, would be the company’s largest single divestiture so far.
“Mr. Goldstein’s belief in the Company’s prospects remains strong, and the stock sales are intended solely for financial diversification purposes,” Sands said at October’s end, as the CEO began his divestitures.
From Barron's
Organic net sales, which exclude the impact from divestitures, decreased 1%.
The divestitures would resolve FTC allegations that the proposed acquisition would allow Boeing to raise costs or make it more difficult for rival Airbus to compete, the regulator said.
The agencies have reached seven settlements that required divestitures or promises to refrain from anticompetitive behavior so far this year, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of federal data.
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