US watchdog clears ChemChina's takeover of Syngenta, stock leaps

US watchdog clears ChemChina's takeover of Syngenta, stock leaps

Swiss agrochemicals maker Syngenta's logo | REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

A U.S. national security panel has cleared ChemChina’s $43 billion takeover of Swiss pesticides and seeds group Syngenta, the companies said, boosting chances that the largest foreign acquisition ever by a Chinese company will go through.

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