Australia's Metcash falls on ex-dividend trade
** Shares of Metcash MTS.AX fall as much as 2.1% to A$3.29 in early trade, their lowest since December 1 ** Stock logs largest intraday pct decline since December 4 ** Conglomerate trades ex-dividend ** Co declared an interim dividend of 8.5 Australian cents per share ** Stock on track to decline 2.5% this week, its fifth straight week of losses (Reporting by Nikita Maria Jino in Bengaluru) ((Nikita.Jino@thomsonreuters.com;))
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