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PARIS (Reuters) – Leading healthcare companies Pfizer and AstraZeneca announced on Sunday new investments in France worth a total of nearly $1 billion, ahead of the start of this year’s annual ‘Choose France’ business summit. Pfizer said it would invest 500 million euros ($538.5 million) in France to build up its research and development work …

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PARIS (Reuters) – German aviation firm Lilium and Swiss-based nickel refinery company KL1 will set up new sites in France representing a combined investment of 700 million euros ($753.83 million), French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Sunday. Lilium will invest 400 million euros in a new factory that will create up to 850 …

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By Paritosh Bansal (Reuters) – To some elite financiers who gathered in Los Angeles for the Milken Institute conference, a debt binge in private markets is reminding them of the go-go days of risk-taking before the 2008 financial crisis. In the halls of the Beverly Hilton and at meetings around town last week, I spoke …

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(Reuters) – Henry Birch, the former chief executive of Rank Group, is among the contenders to become the head of British gambling group Entain, Sky News reported on Saturday, citing unidentified sources. The Ladbrokes owner is searching for a new CEO after the abrupt departure of Jette Nygaard-Andersen in December following reports of shareholder and …

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BERLIN (Reuters) – Protesters opposed to expansion of U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla’s plant in Grueneheide near Berlin clashed with police as some of them attempted to storm the facility on Friday. Some 800 people took part in the protest, according to the organising group Disrupt Tesla, which claims the expansion would damage the environment. …

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