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UPDATE 2-Caixa Seguridade, IRB file for IPOs amid Brazil rout

SAO PAULO, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Brazilian insurer Caixa Seguridade Participações SA and reinsurer IRB Brasil RE SA on Tuesday filed plans for initial public offerings that their shareholders expect to raise a combined 13 billion reais ($3.6 billion) should an across-the-board market rout ease in coming weeks.

UPDATE 1-U.S., Mexico open first new rail link in over a century

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug 25 (Reuters) - The United States and Mexico on Tuesday opened their first new rail link in more than a century as part of plans to update infrastructure carrying nearly $600 billion a year in bilateral trade, officials said.

UPDATE 2-Exxon $225 mln pollution settlement with New Jersey is approved

Aug 25 (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp's $225 million settlement with the administration of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie of a longstanding environmental pollution case won approval on Tuesday from a state judge, over the objections of critics who called the accord a sellout.

UPDATE 3-District of Columbia regulators reject Exelon-Pepco merger

WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) - The Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia on Tuesday denied Exelon Corp's $6.8 billion bid for Pepco Holdings Inc, possibly delivering a knockout blow to the deal.

Makai Builds Ocean Thermal-Energy Demo Plant With U.S. Navy

Makai Ocean Engineering Inc. has built an ocean thermal-energy conversion demonstration plant in Hawaii.

U.S., Mexico to open first new rail link in over a century

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug 25 (Reuters) - The United States and Mexico, which have nearly $600 billion in annual trade, will launch on Tuesday the first new rail link between the two countries in more than a century, in the Texas border city of Brownsville, officials said.

Africa's squandered commodity boom erodes U.S. trade promise

JOHANNESBURG/DAKAR, Aug 25 (Reuters) - A fresh U.S.

Europe blue-chip shares on the cheap? Think again

LONDON, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Stock markets are rebounding after a bruising 48-hour sell-off. But with China still battling to revive its slowing economy, Europe's "screaming buys" come with risks.

Major Renewable Energy Developer EDF Expands into Community Wind, Acquires OwnEnergy

Sunedison acquired First Wind in November 2014 and today EDF is announcing that it has snapped up OwnEnergy, a national developer of mid-sized wind projects. The transaction encompasses 100 percent of OwnEnergy’s assets, including its pipeline of future wind projects.

UPDATE 2-Bad oil-and-gas loans soar as BMO profit tops estimates

TORONTO, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Bank of Montreal on Tuesday reported that bad oil-and-gas loans increased sharply in the third quarter but profit topped market expectations on growth in its wealth management unit and personal and commercial banking.

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