Bid & Ask: The Deals of the Week
Noteworthy expenditures of the week
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1. Billionaire Carlos Slim’s wireless carrier América Móvil offered about $6.5 billion for the 40.4 percent it doesn’t already own of Teléfonos de México, the nation’s largest fixed-line carrier.
2. Kirin, Japan’s No. 2 brewer, paid $2.5 billion for Aleadri-Schinni Participações e Representações, a company that holds 50.5 percent of Brazil’s No. 2 beermaker.