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Chase buys 4 million of LI company's shares
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Banking giant J.P. Morgan Chase has bought nearly 4 million shares of MSC Industrial Direct Co., Long Island’s seventh-largest company by revenue, over time.
In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Thursday, Chase noted it had purchased 3,990,632 common shares, or an 8.2 percent stake, on behalf of clients. The filing said the purchase wasn’t intended to exert control over the Melville...