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* San Diego Gas & Electric Co., a unit of Sempra Energy, said it had developed a plan to roughly triple current electricity rates for about 1,000 of its largest customers to discourage power use during emergency or high-consumption periods, as directed by the California Public Utilities Commission.

* The foundation established by David Packard, the late co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Co., sold $1.3 billion of company stock last year, ending its tenure as the computer maker’s largest shareholder.

* Boeing Co. signed a preliminary deal with China, valued at about $7.2 billion, to sell 60 of its new wide-body aircraft to six Chinese airlines. It renamed the plane the 787 Dreamliner from 7E7.

* Shareholders of Canada’s biggest brewer, Molson Inc., voted overwhelmingly in favor of a $6-billion merger with Adolph Coors Co., the third-largest U.S. brewery.

* A Santa Clara County, Calif., jury awarded more than $300,000 in compensatory damages in a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against FedEx Corp. on behalf of two female employees, said a lawyer representing plaintiffs Kolainia Hettick and Jana Bryant.

* The federal government’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States opened a national-security probe of IBM Corp.’s planned $1.25-billion sale of its personal-computer business to China’s Lenovo Group Ltd. after the companies failed to win clearance in an initial review, people familiar with the matter said.