4. BUSINESS DISPOSITIONS

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Separation and Deconsolidation of Venator

In August 2017, we separated the P&A Business and conducted an IPO of ordinary shares of Venator, formerly a wholly-owned subsidiary of Huntsman. Additionally, in December 2017, we conducted a secondary offering of Venator ordinary shares. All of such ordinary shares were sold by Huntsman, and Venator did not receive any proceeds from the offerings.

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On January 3, 2018, the underwriters purchased an additional 1,948,955 Venator ordinary shares pursuant to their over-allotment option, which reduced Huntsman’s ownership interest in Venator to approximately 53%. Beginning in the third quarter of 2017, we reported the results of operations of Venator as discontinued operations.

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On December 3, 2018, we sold an aggregate of 4,334,389, or 4%, of Venator ordinary shares to Bank of America N.A. at a price determined based on the average of the daily volume weighted average price of Venator ordinary shares over an agreed period (the “Forward Swap”). Over this agreed period, we received aggregate proceeds of $19 million, $16 million of which was received in the first quarter of 2019. Following this transaction, we retained approximately 49% ownership in Venator and this transaction allowed us to deconsolidate Venator beginning in December 2018, and thus we began accounting for our remaining interest in Venator as an equity method investment and elected the fair value option to account for our equity method investment in Venator.

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Although we intend to monetize our remaining 49% ownership in Venator, our ability to sell our ordinary shares of Venator at a reasonable price is dependent upon the prevailing market value of Venator common stock. The depressed Venator stock price inhibits our ability to sell our remaining shares of Venator at a reasonable price, which could continue for more than twelve months. Therefore, in December 2018, our equity method investment in Venator did not meet the held for sale criteria and our equity method investment in Venator was recorded in continuing operations.

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During the first quarter of 2019, we recorded a gain of $1 million to record the Forward Swap at fair value. Accordingly, for the three and six months ended June 30, 2019, we recorded a loss of $18 million and a gain of $57 million, respectively, to record our investment in Venator at fair value. These gains and losses were recorded in “Fair value adjustments to Venator investment” on our condensed consolidated statements of operations.

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The following table summarizes major classes of line items constituting pretax and after-tax income of discontinued operations (dollars in millions):

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