Glencore lends $250 m to rival Vedanta Resources

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Glencore International, one of the world’s largest natural resource companies, has given a $ 250 million loan to Vedanta Group’s parent company Vedanta Resources Ltd ie VRL. For this loan, 4.4% stake of Vedanta, which is a listed company in India, has been pledged. This amount will be used by VRL on payment of due bonds on May 31 ie Wednesday…That is, VRL will be able to avoid the crisis of its debt payment with this amount. VRL has to pay $ 4.1 billion in FY24 i.e. in the current financial year. Experts believe that the loan given by Glencore can be strategic and this can be the first step by Swiss company Glencore, towards the purchase of stake in Vedanta, that is an Indian company.

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