502 results returned for search: "independence AND " category "Business"
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street finished an extremely erratic session with a modest decline yesterday as investors parsed unimpressive data on home sales and consumer confidence and awaited the Federal Reserve's meeting on interest rates.The Dow Jones in...
DATE: Jun 27, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and Dow Jones & Company are closer to an agreement on a structure to protect editorial independence in a sale of the Wall Street Journal's owner, said two people briefed on the negotiations.Tal...
DATE: Jun 26, 2007
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The Greeks considered ethics a moral philosophy employing right and wrong, good and evil, and responsibility for one's actions. Roget's thesaurus defines ethics as goals, morals, principles, standards, and values.
Individually, we develop a personal ...
DATE: Jun 23, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Dow Jones & Co.'s shares were cut to "reduce" by UBS AG analyst Brian Shipman, who advised investors to sell the stock because it trades close to the $60 buyout bid by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.Shares of Dow Jones, owner of th...
DATE: Jun 15, 2007
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Washington (Bloomberg) — A US House of Representatives panel is investigating firms that advise companies on executive compensation while providing other services to determine whether conflicts of interest contribute to excessive pay packages.Represe...
DATE: May 14, 2007
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LONDON (AP) — Britain's business sector is awaiting the crowning of Gordon Brown as the country's new prime minister with some trepidation — much of the Treasury chief's manifesto remains a mystery but his "big bang" entry into his current position h...
DATE: May 11, 2007
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The independence of Bermuda-based reinsurer Alea’s directors has been called into question over payments made to private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Fortress, the group buying out the reinsurer for an agreed $162 million bid, according t...
DATE: May 02, 2007
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Last year, we witnessed a period of risk aversion when investors became anxious that inflation was heading up and central banks were going to turn the screws. But, when it became evident that policymakers weren't going to become proactive about stomp...
DATE: Apr 30, 2007
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LONDON (AP) — The last time the British pound was worth more than $2, the elder George Bush was waging a losing US presidential campaign against Bill Clinton and the Eurotunnel linking Britain to Europe was still under construction.It took almost 15 ...
DATE: Apr 18, 2007
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A news report out of Ireland claims that many Bermuda international companies are considering plans to relocate the bulk of their businesses — leaving just satellite offices on the Island — because of concerns over work-permit time limits and the pos...
DATE: Apr 05, 2007
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