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...first in a decade, that July futures contracts in excess of 1 million bu. be liquidated. In one day soybean-futures prices plunged 5%, to $6.86 per bu. Traders speculated that a single buyer was trying to corner the market or drive up prices. The suspected culprit: Ferruzzi Finanziaria, Italy's second largest privately held company and the third largest U.S. soybean processor since it bought Indiana-based Central Soya...
...Italian financiers. To preserve their power - and the value of their investments - they arrange for their firms to control one another through a cozy network of holding companies. Chemical-making Montecatini Edison, Italy's largest private industrial corporation, was long the leading shareholder in both Italpi and Sade-Finanziaria, holding companies that, as it happens, control Montecatini Edison. Italmobiliare is 100% owned by Italcementi, an important shareholder in Bastogi, which in turn owns more than 10% of Italcementi...
...looking private investors have sought to pry open the country's long-closed business establishment. Acting through a state-owned investment bank, the government-owned holding companies ENI and IRI quietly bought effective control of Montecatini Edison last October. Once in power, the state agencies ousted both Sade-Finanziaria and Italpi from a syndicate of controlling stockholders because the companies were owned by Montecatini...
Both the Cornigliano and Terni plants are owned by Finsider (Finanziaria Siderurgica), a government-owned steel trust set up by Mussolini to modernize Italy's steel industry. (It now controls 45% of the industry.) The trust did not do very well with the production of rolled steel: total production last year was only 300,000 tons, barely half the country's requirements. When it reaches capacity in about two years, Cornigliano alone will roll 458,000 tons, and should be able to undersell other Italian-made steel by 25%. Armco will send 60 technicians to Italy to train...
...Societa Finanziaria Marittima...
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