Bloomberg Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. agreed to buy Dutch drug-ingredients maker Patheon NV for $5.2 billion, extending the acquisition binge that helped turn it into one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of diagnostic and testing equipment. Thermo Fisher will pay $35 a share in cash, 35 percent above Patheon’s closing price, before Bloomberg News reported that the companies were in …

Bloomberg RWE AG jumped to the highest since July after Germany’s biggest power producer said profit is on target and it plans to pay a dividend for the first time in three years. The Essen-based utility’s efforts to boost plant efficiency and the contribution of energy trading is helping compensate for weak power prices, Markus Krebber, chief financial officer at …

Bloomberg American International Group Inc. will give Brian Duperreault $12 million in cash, 1.5 million stock options and an annual pay package valued at $16 million to turn around the company as its seventh chief executive officer since 2005. AIG will also pay Duperreault’s previous employer, Hamilton Insurance Group, as much as $40 million over two years to waive their …