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Abengoa Surges on $1.45 Billion U.S. Loan Guarantee

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Abengoa SA surged the most in six months in Madrid trading after the company won a $1.45 billion loan guarantee from the U.S. government to build a solar-power plant in Arizona.

Shares in the Spanish solar-technology developer climbed 9 percent to close at 18.015 euros. The stock leg gainers on the 88-member benchmark WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index, which rose 0.1 percent.