EDF Shares Sink as Finance Chief Quits Over U.K. Reactor Project

  • Piquemal said to warn that Hinkley decision is being rushed
  • CEO Levy reiterates plan to determine project's future soon

Thomas Piquemal.

Photographer: Fabrice Dimier/Bloomberg
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Electricite de France SA plunged in Paris trading as Chief Financial Officer Thomas Piquemal resigned after his plea to delay a U.K. reactor project was rejected.

EDF dropped as much as 9.6 percent, the biggest intraday slump since June 2014 and the largest decline among members of the Euro Stoxx Utilities index.