Mexico / AFP In a historic first, Mexico’s struggling state-run Pemex energy company will team up with private firms for a deep-water oil project, officials said. Pemex will “farm out” the $11 billion Trion field in the Gulf of Mexico, which has potentially 480 million barrels of light crude, said company director general Jose Antonio Gonzalez Anaya. President Enrique …

  Canada / AFP General Motors announced plans to hire 1,000 engineers and software developers at its Canadian research facilities near Toronto over the coming years to design new self-driving cars. “With this expansion, GM Canada will play an important role in our evolution toward vehicles that are connected, autonomous, shared and electric,” Mark Reuss, GM executive vice president of …

  Bloomberg Puerto Rico lawmakers may vote as soon as Monday on a bill intended to help the island’s main water utility avoid a July 1 bond default by selling new debt with stronger repayment pledges. A conference committee approved the measure, said Rep. Rafael ‘Tatito’ Hernandez, sponsor of the legislation and chair of the House Treasury Committee. It would …