Financial Times: China builds stake in BP
Published: April 15 2008 03:00 | Last updated: April 15 2008 03:00
China has built up a stake of about 1 per cent in BP via a sovereign wealth fund. The stock market value of the stake is estimated to be about £1bn.
The move follows the purchase of 1.6 per cent in French oil company Total by China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange.
Gordon Brown, the prime minister, on a visit to China in January urged the country’s new $200bn sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corp, to use London as a hub for its international operations, contrasting Britain’s “open door” policy with protectionist signals from the US. Mr Brown’s words won a warm response from Wen Jiabao, Chinese premier, who said the fund would operate on “a totally corporate basis, without intervention from the government”. FT Reporters
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