Also. . .

* Germany’s Deutsche Bank said it reached an agreement to acquire the 84% of National Discount Brokers Group Inc. it does not already own for $840 million, or $49 a share, a deal that values the brokerage at more than $1 billion.

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* Ivax Corp., which makes a generic version of the cancer-fighting drug Taxol, said it would acquire the Mexico City-based pharmaceutical company Laboratorios Fustery for an undisclosed amount of cash and stock. Fustery has annual revenue of about $80 million, Miami-based Ivax said.