{"id":1018243,"date":"2026-07-02T07:14:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018243"},"modified":"2026-07-02T07:25:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:55:53","slug":"spanish-lender-bbva-reduces-stake-in-telefonica-below-2-from-5-regulator-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/02\/spanish-lender-bbva-reduces-stake-in-telefonica-below-2-from-5-regulator-data-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish lender BBVA reduces stake in Telefonica below 2% from 5%, regulator data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID: Spanish lender BBVA has reduced its stake in telecoms giant Telefonica to 1.965% from a previous holding of 5%, official data from the Spanish \u200cstock \u2060market supervisor \u2060showed on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>BBVA, which has had its Telefonica shares listed as available for sale &#8211; and therefore as a financial asset &#8211; since 1997, did not disclose \u2060the aumount \u200cof the transaction. <\/p>\n<p>BBVA did not announce \u2060when the stake was sold. <\/p>\n<p>The latest data from the supervisor showing a 5.007% stake in Telefonica was published in June last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID: Spanish lender BBVA has reduced its stake in telecoms giant Telefonica to 1.965% from a previous holding of 5%, official data from the Spanish \u200cstock \u2060market supervisor \u2060showed on Wednesday. BBVA, which has had its Telefonica shares listed as available for sale &#8211; and therefore as a financial asset &#8211; since 1997, did not disclose \u2060the aumount \u200cof the transaction. BBVA did not announce \u2060when the stake was sold. The latest data from the supervisor showing a 5.007% stake in Telefonica was published in June last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018244,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018243\/revisions\/1018244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}