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Carlos Slim Helu Has No Plans to Buy the Times

A spokesman for Carlos Slim told the Journal that the Mexican billionaire is not interested in buying the rest of the New York Times (he already owns nearly 7 percent of the paper) this afternoon, but not before stocks for the paper jumped 5 percent on rumors that he was. [MarketWatch]

Carlos Slim Helu Has No Plans to Buy the Times