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* Edison International won approval from California regulators to buy a 1,054-megawatt power plant being built in Redlands.
* About 40,000 bottles of Hansen’s Classic Sparkling Cider are being recalled because of a threat of breakage. The recall affects 50.7-ounce green bottles with a bar code of 70847 00590.
* Oracle Corp. extended its $7.3-billion hostile tender offer for PeopleSoft Inc. to Feb. 13 from Dec. 31.
* Parmalat Finanziaria, which sells dairy and baked good in 30 countries, slid toward a bankruptcy filing after Bank of America Corp. said documents claiming the Italian company had $4.9 billion in an account weren’t authentic.
* European Union regulators approved the acquisition of Vivendi Universal’s U.S. entertainment assets by General Electric Co.’s NBC division.
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