Bloomberg Gerdau SA fell the most among peers after police indicted more than a dozen people, including its chief executive officer, for their alleged involvement in a tax evasion scandal linked to Brazil’s No. 2 steelmaker. Shares in Gerdau fell 7.1 percent in Sao Paulo, the steepest loss among 82 members of the Bloomberg World Iron Steel Index, which …

  Bloomberg Altos Hornos de Mexico SA, the steelmaker known as Ahmsa, is exiting the bankruptcy process in Mexico after 17 years of court protection. A Mexican judge ordered the company’s suspension-of-payments proceedings to be lifted and approved a plan for creditors, effective immediately, the company said in a statement Monday. The court-approved exit calls for Ahmsa to repay $1.7 …

  Vienna / AFP Senior envoys from world and regional powers gathered once again in Vienna on Tuesday in an effort to salvage stumbling efforts to halt Syria’s civil war. US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov—diplomacy’s odd couple, at loggerheads over much else in the world—are chairing the meeting, which began shortly after 0700 GMT. …