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UPDATE 1-Saudi prince buys $1 bln Citigroup, AOL, Priceline
Reuters, 03.11.02, 8:11 AM ET

(maybe there is hope for my over $5 pick -AOL- ~grin)

DUBAI, March 11 (Reuters) - Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed has bought more than $1 billion worth of shares in Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people), AOL Time Warner (nyse: aol - news - people) and Priceline.com (nasdaq: pcln - news - people) over the past six months, his company said on Monday.

The prince, among the world's wealthiest men, bought $500 million in Citigroup, $450 million in AOL Time Warner and $100 million in Priceline.com. With around $10 billion in Citigroup, Alwaleed was already the biggest shareholder in the bank.

"At about $43, Citi's share price was at too attractive a price," the prince said in a statement issued by his company Kingdom Holdings.

The statement said the prince also found AOL Time Warner price attractive at $23 a share.

"I believe in the power of the AOL brand and I am already a shareholder in this global media giant. Therefore when the price reached a lucrative level, we decided to increase our stake," the prince said, without giving exact figures on his AOL holdings.

He also described Priceline.com as one of the few Internet companies that "survived the turbulance witnessed by the Internet arena".

His holdings in Internet commerce comapny Priceline.com currently stand at 5.4 percent, he added.

Alwaleed, a nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, has a personal fortune estimated at $20 billion, the bulk of which is invested in the United States.

Copyright 2002, Reuters News Service
-------- Tim --------
I guess it was only fitting for the one to have started this board to be the 1001 poster lol

best!

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