Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) has acquired a minority stake in ChinaWeb, the parent company of Chinese financial information portal Hexun. Founded in 1996, Hexun is now one of China’s largest financial information portals with 50 million monthly unique visitors and 670 million page views per month. Financial terms of the all-cash transaction were not disclosed.

Rafat adds: This is the first investment announced by the combined Reuters-Thomson (NYSE: TOC) company after the deal got regulatory approval.

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