Bizjournals.com – After watching Sonesta International Hotels Corp. lose roughly 70 percent of its stock market value over the past 18 months, a Connecticut hedge fund has shed roughly a third of its holdings in the Massachusetts-based hotel operator.

In a recent regulatory filing, Mercury Real Estate Advisors, based in Greenwich, Conn., said it sold around 23,400 shares of Sonesta stock (Nasdaq: SNSTA) between Jan. 20 and Feb. 10, bringing its total ownership in the company to 206,048 shares. Those holdings equate to around 5.6 percent of Sonesta’s common stock outstanding.

Mercury’s ownership stake was more than 9 percent in mid 2007, when Sonesta’s stock traded above $30 a share. Sonesta’s stock opened Monday at $9.50 a share.

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