Abu Dhabi cashes out of Barclays

Sheik Mansour's sovereign wealth fund made a surprise sale of its £3.5bn investment in Barclays, banking a 70% profit. Could investors cashing in mark the end of the banks' bull run?

Sheik Mansour, a member of Abu Dhabi's royal family, is one of the few investors to have made money from banking stocks during the credit crunch. This week his sovereign wealth fund made a surprise exit from Barclays, selling its £3.5bn investment acquired last autumn and banking a 70% profit in the process. Barclays shares fell 14% on the news.

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