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Teine Energy to buy Penn West oil assets for $763mn

  Bloomberg Teine Energy Ltd., the energy company backed by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, has agreed to buy oil-producing properties from Penn West Petroleum Ltd. for C$975 million ($763 million) in cash. The deal involves all of Penn West’s properties in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, including its Dodsland Viking light-oil assets in the east and the medium and ...

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Brazil’s fiscal accounts were a nasty surprise to Temer’s team

  Bloomberg Brazil’s fiscal accounts were in worse shape than initially thought after the suspension of Dilma Rousseff, underscoring the challenge facing the country’s new economic team, acting President Michel Temer said. “It was surprising, in a negative way, what we encountered,” Temer told the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper in an interview on its website. “The fiscal accounts were ...

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Wal-Mart Canada to stop accepting Visa cards

  Bloomberg Wal-Mart Canada, a unit of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., said it will no longer accept Visa credit cards because the fees applied to purchases are too high. “To ensure we are taking care of our customers’ best interests and delivering on our promise of saving customers money, we constantly work to reduce our operating costs, including credit card fees,” ...

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