Alstom shares slide as top shareholder Bouygues cuts stake
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PARIS (Reuters) - Shares in French train manufacturer Alstom fell on Thursday after its leading shareholder Bouygues shed half its stake in a business that has become less compatible with its focus on construction and telecoms. The sale follows years of setbacks and strategy shifts for the Bouygues conglomerate as Alstom's leading investor. Its ambition to create a vast nuclear and energy group when it bought into the company in 2006, taking on the French state's stake, never came to fruition,..