Both bills empower regulators to order firms to divest businesses that are too risky.

Halliburton has said it was ready to divest businesses that generate revenue of $7.5 billion.

He promised to reshape Teva by developing its own medicines, amid increasing competition in the generics market, and to divest businesses in non-core areas.

Halliburton said in November that it was ready to divest businesses that generate revenue of $7.5 billion.

He promised to reshape the company by developing its own medicines, amid increasing competition in the generics market, and to divest businesses in non-core areas.

The two companies have so far disclosed plans to divest businesses with combined 2013 revenue of $5.2 billion.

Halliburton previously said it was willing to divest businesses with combined revenue of $7.5 billion to satisfy regulators.

Bayer, a drugs and pesticides company, has pledged to divest businesses with up to $1.6 billion in annual sales if required by antitrust regulators.

GH Health will purchase the divested businesses, the FTC said.

Nothing in the deal prevents the company from divesting businesses.

Excluding the impact of foreign currency and sales from divested businesses, sales decreased 5 percent.

The plan involves divesting businesses, cutting costs and ultimately returning $25 billion to shareholders.

The company has also divested businesses like Post cereals, while buying businesses like the Lu biscuits line.

Unit volume was up 1.5 percent, excluding divested businesses, below her 4 percent forecast.

The total revenue of the divested businesses was $240 million in 2010, Lafarge said.

The total revenue of the divested businesses was about $240 million in 2010, Lafarge said.