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China blocks SoftBank’s US$5.4 billion takeover of ABB’s robotics division

11.05

China’s state planner has told Japanese investor SoftBank it will not allow the US$5.4 billion acquisition ‌of the robotics segment of engineering group ABB to go ahead, the Swiss firm said on…

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