LONDON/MILAN (Reuters) - Shares in Fiat (MI:FIA) fell more than 4 percent on Tuesday, with three traders citing a press report in Chinese media regarding a competition probe targeting Chrysler in China, which is wholly owned by Fiat.
A spokesperson for Fiat was not immediately available to comment on the report by China National Radio, which did not cite its sources.
Fiat's stock was down 4.7 percent, to 6.75 euros (6.74 pounds), at 13:10 BST. The stock had been halted from trading earlier in the session and had traded as low as 6.56 euros.
Two traders also said that part of the decline might be linked to concerns that shareholders who voted against Fiat's merger with Chrysler would exercise their right to sell the stock, causing the merger to fail.
(1 US dollar = 0.7473 euro)
(Reporting By Francesco Canepa, Yiming Shen, Blaise Robinson, Agnieszka Flak and Andrew Winterbottom; Editing by Lionel Laurent)