Louis Dreyfus Group and the hedge fund unit of JPMorgan Chase & Co are selling their jointly owned energy trading business to an investor group, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. The deal is expected to help fund an expansion plan by Louis Dreyfus in its core agricultural trading business, while a new ownership structure for LDH Energy, the company that will be sold, should help it raise capital and fund its own expansion, the newspaper said. It didn't give terms for the deal.LDH Energy is the eighth largest natural gas trader in the United States, the FT said, citing Natural Gas Intelligence. It is also a top 10 crude and products merchant, it said.The company will be sold to Glenn Dubin, Paul Tudor Jones and other investors.Dubin is the chairman of Highbridge Capital, the JPMorgan hedge fund that co-owns LDH Energy, according to the report. Jones is the founder of hedge fund Tudor Investment Corp.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMorgan Chase) is a financial holding company. Shares of JPM traded higher by 0.59% or $0.24/share to $40.86. In the past year, the shares have traded as low as $28.28 and as high as $46.49. On average, 27800100 shares of JPM exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 22421112.
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