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Companies with reports and trading updates today include AstraZeneca and Poundland.
AstraZeneca has agreed to buy a Shanghai-based pharmaceutical company for just under £1 billion as it bets on China's medical technology.
Britain's biggest drugmaker said yesterday it would acquire Gracell Biotechnologies for up to £950 million.
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