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* Retailer Pacific Sunwear of California Inc. named Gerald Chaney its chief financial officer, effective Dec. 2.

* A second former employee of DaimlerChrysler filed a federal lawsuit against the automaker, accusing it of firing her after it ignored reports of accounting fraud. Christine Holtzmann filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Detroit.

* As expected, Congress extended for three years a prohibition of taxes on Internet access provided by companies such as Time Warner Inc.’s America Online.

* PG&E; Corp.’s Pacific Gas & Electric Co. won regulatory approval to sell as much as $3 billion in bonds to refinance debt incurred during the California energy crisis of 2000 and 2001.