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Astra pays $198 mln to settle Seroquel lawsuits
LONDON (AP) -- AstraZeneca PLC says it has paid around $198 million to settle U.S. lawsuits over its antipsychotic drug Seroquel.
AstraZeneca said Monday it has paid out ...
DATE: Aug 10, 2010
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Skype, a provider of Internet telephone services, plans to raise up to $100 million in an initial US public offering of its shares, according to filings made to regulators yesterday.
Analysts said this could be a bid by Skype's p...
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Captive insurers doubled their profits in 2009 as the industry's investments recovered from the depths of the recession in 2008, according to a special report by AM Best Co.
The survey of 195 US insurers revealed that realised capital gains totalled ...
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The rate of inflation fell slightly to 2.6 percent during June even though the rising cost of health and personal care impacted the cost of living, according to the latest Government figures.
The Department of Statistics' Consumer Price Index (CPI) r...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co's share price fell in early trading yesterday, three days after CEO Mark Hurd resigned following an investigation into his relationship with a contractor.
HP shares, which had doubled since Hurd took the helm f...
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LONDON - Financial stocks boosted Britain's leading share index, rallying from falls in the previous session following weak US jobs data and supported by energy markers which gained in tandem with crude. The FTSE 100 was up 78.13 points, or 1.5 perce...
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Stereotypes bedevil the hiring process and they torment ambitious professionals in their careers. But they're impossible to eradicate. Why? Because stereotypes are energy-saving devices, mental shortcuts that allow us to extrapolate a great deal from...
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Age: 34
Role: Support services supervisor, Marsh
What is your job? My job is to ensure the smooth operation of the Marsh offices. I oversee the reception, mailroom, stationery and catering departments on a daily basis and make sure that each area run...
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Butterfield Bank was the only trader on The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) as the Index closed at 1,244.25 yesterday.
The bank traded 1,207 common shares and 80 preference shares, but its share prices remained unchanged at $1.45 and $1,200 respectively...
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Bermuda-based Allied World Assurance Company Holdings Ltd. has repurchased $250 million of its common shares from some of the company's founding shareholders.
The company bought five million shares from affiliates of US banking giant Goldman Sachs, i...
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Jonathan Kent
