Italy's Intesa Sanpaolo says it will invest in SpaceX

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MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's biggest bank Intesa Sanpaolo said on Friday it had decided to invest in US billionaire Elon Musk's space company SpaceX.

Intesa Sanpaolo recognizes "the aerospace sector as having a particularly important role in the development of world economies and has therefore decided to invest in a player that has demonstrated a cutting-edge vision of the near future", the bank said in a statement.

The size of the investment was not disclosed.

(Reporting by Elisa Anzolin, editing by Alvise Armellini)

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