* Cable & Wireless (C&W), the UK telecommunications group, has increased its holding in Bezeq, the Israeli state-owned operator, from 10% to 13%. The purchaser has been building up its ownership of Bezeq in the last three years and its intention to increase its level of ownership has been blamed by some as having scuppered the government's plans to privatise the group. Few institutional investors are interested in purchasing a stake in a company which has an industrial shareholder at this level.
July 31, 1998