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LEHIGH VALLEY, Pennsylvania (AP) Air Products and Chemicals Inc. said yesterday that it boosted its offer to acquire rival Airgas Inc. by almost seven percent to $70 per share, and called it its “best and final” offer in what has been a 14-month purs...
DATE: Dec 10, 2010
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LONDON (Reuters) Britain’s global goods trade deficit unexpectedly widened in October after imports rose to the highest on record, official data showed yesterday, raising questions about trade’s contribution to future UK growth.
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Bermuda reinsurers’ voracious appetite for repurchasing their own shares shows no sign of being sated.
Yesterday, Validus Holdings Ltd said it expected to buy back $238 million worth of its shares as the result of a tender offer, while PartnerRe Ltd ...
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto’s main stock index ended slightly higher yesterday as mining and materials issues led an otherwise sideways market.
Heavily weighted materials stocks rallied late to finish the session up 0.43 percent, rebounding from shar...
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) European Union leaders meet next week under pressure to take bolder steps to quell the euro zone debt crisis, despite signs that volatility in European bond markets is abating ahead of the end of the year. The European commissioner...
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LONDON (Reuters) The Bank of England voted to make no change to its monetary policy this month, in a widely expected decision as it waits to see how much growth next year suffers from UK public spending cuts and euro zone turmoil.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) Australian employment blew away forecasts by surging 54,600 in November as firms took on many more full-time workers, a resounding counterpoint to recent soft data and an omen that interest rates may not stay on hold for too long.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The average fine slapped by the Financial Services Authority on firms it regulates nearly doubled this year compared with 2009 and will continue upwards, Britain’s markets watchdog said yesterday.
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NEW YORK (AP) Outgoing Pfizer CEO Jeffery B. Kindler (pictured) will receive about $9.6 million in cash, plus stock incentives, as part of his compensation after abruptly leaving the drug developer after nearly five years leading the company.
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Hannover Re vice-president and underwriter Gail Martin has won the Bermuda Foundation For Insurance Studies annual Pink Shorts Award.
Ms Martin has served on BFIS committees since 2003, becoming a trustee in 2005 and a vice-president in 2009.
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