Merck aims to quickly repay up to $5 bln in loans -CFO in Boersen-Zeitung
April 18, 2015 at 11:18 AM EDT
FRANKFURT, April 18 (Reuters) - Germany's Merck aims to quickly repay the up to $5 billion in bank loans it needed to fund the $17 billion acquisition of U.S. lab supplies company Sigma-Aldrich, its finance chief told daily Boersen-Zeitung.