Blackstone boosts IPO after Beijing takes $3bn stake

2007-06-04 13:02 By Financial Times 1 min. read

The Chinese government is to use $3bn of its vast foreign exchange reserves to buy a 9.9% stake in Blackstone, as the US buy-out fund said it had increased the size of its IPO to up to $4.75bn.



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