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...Germany’s Merck lost 2.3 per cent to €63.68 and Sanofi-Aventis in France declined 2.1 per cent to €52.68....
...German chemicals and pharma company Merck KGaA rose 2.2 per cent to €73.64. Belgium’s Solvay, in the late stages of auctioning off its drugs arm, rose 0.8 per cent to €64.19....
...Wilhelm von Finck like the better-known Merck Finck, now a subsidiary of Kredietbank Luxembourgeoise is an offshoot of the von Finck family banking empire....
...Among these was Germany’s Merck, the drugs and chemicals group whose shares retreated 3.1 per cent to €42.03 amid concerns that prices of liquid crystals, one of Merck’s main profit centres, could come under...
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