UniCredit opens door to share buyback after strong quarter
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MILAN (Reuters) - UniCredit , Italy's biggest bank, on Thursday opened the door to its first share buyback in more than a decade after reporting strong third-quarter profits, sending the bank's stock price up more than 5%.The results and potential buy-back show how the restructuring by Chief Executive Jean Pierre Mustier is starting to pay off. He has been selling assets and cutting costs since his arrival at the bank in mid-2016.As part of this plan to shed non-core assets, UniCredit on..