AIG's (AIG) stock remains under pressure, even though the government has began to unwind its position in the big insurer.
Shares took a big slide earlier this year after AIG issued 75 million 10-year warrants to its non-government shareholders to buy AIG shares for $45 a pop. While the step brought AIG one step closer toward ending its dependence on the U.S. government, it also brought the company's share price down 15% in a single trading session.
The stock also fell last month after AIG sold 100 million shares and the U.S. government unloaded 200 million of its shares of the company -- a total of about $8.7 billion in AIG stock.
While the stock sale was highly anticipated, the government still holds a 77% stake in AIG, and it will take awhile to whittle down the remaining 1.5 billion shares it owns.
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