Chile’s Codelco Sells $1.04B E-CL Stake

Codelco has sold its stake in a Chilean electricity company controlled by GDF Suez.

Codelco has sold its stake in a Chilean electricity company controlled by GDF Suez, Bloomberg reports. The Chilean state-owned copper producer raised a total of $1.04 billion from the stock sale. As part of the agreement, Codelco sold 424 million shares in E-CL at $9.8 per share. The seller will use the proceeds from the sale to raise production from its mines.

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