divest
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Not only has it exited its retail-banking units in many overseas markets, it even recently sold a roughly 25% stake in Banamex, as part of a process to divest itself of the unit.
Constellation agreed to divest six plants in Texas, Delaware, and Pennsylvania as part of an agreement announced last month with the Texas attorney general and the Department of Justice.
From Barron's
The need to pause is more pronounced now that BP has divested some of its key cash flow generating asset, Castrol, they say.
Congress passed, and the Supreme Court unanimously upheld, a law requiring the app’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to divest and relinquish operational control of the U.S. business or be banned.
Islamabad has promised to divest dozens of its cash-burning enterprises in the finance, energy, industrial and retailing sectors by 2029 under a $7 billion loan programme agreed with the International Monetary Fund last year.
From Barron's
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