The news division, Reuters Media, is the smallest part of London-based Reuters, which makes most of its profit selling financial data to banks and investors.
Its plan to sell more than half of the asset-management division while retaining more than half of its profit smacks of sleight-of-hand.
它计划卖出资产管理部门的一多半，而于此同时通过巧妙的手法保持其利润的一大半。
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News Corporation reported a drop in quarterly profit because of declining revenue from film and DVDs and the sale of its MySpace website, though operating income at its cable-TV division was up.