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Five Highlights From June 2015 U.S. Car Sales

– Eight automakers posted record June sales as the industry totaled nearly 8.5 million cars through the mid-year, a four-percent jump over 2014. At this rate, WardsAuto predicts total sales of 17.1 million cars for 2015, or 600,000 more than last year. Here’s what’s hot and cold this summer. – – Hyundai and Kia Have Record First Halves – – Hyundai and Kia don’t act like underdogs anymore. Between them,

Iran nuclear talks in endgame, negotiators push on sticking points

By John Irish and Louis Charbonneau VIENNA (Reuters) – A year and half of nuclear talks between Iran and major powers were creeping towards the finish line on Friday as negotiators wrestled with sticking points including questions about Tehran’s past atomic research. Iran is in talks with the United States and five other powers – Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia – on an agreement to curtail its nuclear program

Hospira wins French biosimilar drug tender at 45 percent discount

PARIS (Reuters) – A major French hospital group has chosen a cheap copycat version of a top-selling drug for treating its patients with rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn’s disease in a victory for a new type of medicine known as biosimilars.    In a document seen by Reuters, the central purchasing agency for the Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) said on Friday it had decided to buy the biosimilar version