PARIS (Dow Jones)--Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS.LN) has reduced its overall stake in French communications technology group Technicolor (TCH.FR) to 2.58%, the French bourse regulator said Thursday. Autorite des Marches Financiers said in a routine regulatory release that the U.K. banking group dropped below the mandatory 5% reporting threshold via sales of the shares on the stock market, July 9. The AMF didn't say how much RBS directly or indirectly through affiliates held in Technicolor before the sales. -By A.H. Mooradian, Dow Jones Newswires; +33 1 4017 1740;
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