Toyota (TM) invests $282 million in the Huntsville plant in Alabama to expand its production capacity.
Japan's two biggest banks will start divesting their strategic shareholdings in Toyota Motor - worth a combined $8.5 billion - and will seek to sell into the automaker's planned share buybacks, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing sources. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) have said they plan to sell down their cross-shareholdings over time.
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