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Lucid stock rose 5.3% to $7.11 following disclosure of Uber’s 37.8 million shareholding, despite the investment being previously announced.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

It has retained its majority shareholding in South African miner Kumba Iron Ore, as well as an interest in a local manganese business and its sprawling wine farm, Vergelegen, outside of Cape Town.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Disclosure rules similarly make anonymous trading and arm’s-length shareholding safe.

From Barron's • Jan. 2, 2026

Hanwha, which has a 9.9% stake in Austal, wants to boost its shareholding to 19.9%.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

With the continued growth of the shareholding class, the brighter-looking matrimonial chances, not to speak of the glittering opportunities that are not matrimonial, will increase.

From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)