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  Bloomberg Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. agreed to buy a handful of generic products, most of them awaiting U.S. regulatory approval, from Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and a unit of Allergan Plc, a transaction required for Teva to be allowed to proceed with the takeover of Allergan’s generics business. Dr. Reddy’s will pay $350 million in cash, the Hyderabad, India-based ...

  Bloomberg Chile’s inflation rate was unchanged in May, above the target range, as central bank President Rodrigo Vergara used price-growth to explain the bank’s continued tightening bias in monetary policy as unemployment rises. Prices increased 4.2 percent from the year earlier, the National Institute of Statistics reported. In the month, prices gained 0.2 percent, the agency said. Policy makers ...

  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 ...

  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 ...

  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,” ...

Bloomberg Ventus Ingenieria SRL, a Uruguayan wind-farm developer, is close to receiving a permit to export electricity to Argentina amid an excess of power generation in its home market. Uruguay’s government is considering a temporary permit to accelerate the deal while the government works through the standard regulatory procedures, according to Francis Raquet, a director at Ventus. The Montevideo-based company ...

  New Delhi / Tribune News Service The Indian government has proposed a slew of amendments to the civil aviation rules, including reducing cancellation charges, increasing compensation if a passenger is prevented from boarding, and streamlining the process of refunds. The proposed amendments, which have been discussed with airlines, were uploaded on the website of the Directorate General of Civil ...

  Paris / Bloomberg Air France, hobbled by a strike involving more than a quarter of its pilots, said about 80 percent of its flights would operate on Saturday and Sunday. Air France-KLM Group’s French arm will maintain more than 80 percent of scheduled long-haul flights and about 70 percent of European services on Sunday, it said in a statement, ...

  New York / Tribune News Service Anne Hatfield, a spokeswoman for Wal-Mart, didn’t immediately respond to a Globe phone call and email messages. The Express stores that were closed were much smaller than what Wal-Mart calls a supercenter. The Express stores were 12,000-15,000 square feet compared with 180,000 square feet sported by the big stores. Noel Mayor John Lafley ...

  New York / AFP The Swiss pilot readying to cross the Atlantic in a solar-powered plane on the next leg of a record-breaking, round-the-world mission says he is making science fiction reality. Bertrand Piccard, a psychiatrist and balloonist, will next command Solar Impulse 2 when meteorologists determine the best five-to-six day window for the ocean crossing from New York ...