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Bill Gates Keeps Adding To Republic Services Stake (RSG)

Money_stack_pic_4Bill Gates is at it again. He’s bought more shares of Republic Services Inc. (NYSE: RSG).  In an SEC filing after the close today,Mr. Gates disclosed he spent more than $11.6 million to buy another 460,100 shares. 

His new indirect position via Cascade is 37,633,936.  If you lookthrough his last holdings at the end of the last quarter (9/30), that is up from 34,873,836.

The transaction date was listed as January 8 at an average priceof $25.39. It seems that retired billionaires must want to be garbagemen.  Or maybe they just want to own the garbage companies.

Jon C. Ogg
January 12, 2009

 

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