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LONDON (AP) — Greenpeace activists scaled BP's London headquarters yesterday to hang a flag accusing the oil company of polluting the environment.
The flag was a parody of BP PLC's logo, which showed oil dripping from the company's yellow and green s...
DATE: May 21, 2010
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LONDON (AP) — Thousands of travellers face the renewed threat of disruption in coming weeks after the union representing British Airways cabin crews won a landmark ruling against a legal block on its planned strikes.
The Unite union said it wouldn't ...
DATE: May 21, 2010
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LONDON (AP) — Demand is rising for the best office space in London's financial district and some major developers are taking on new projects — signs of a cautious recovery in the wake of a vicious recession.
But it's too soon, analysts say, to look f...
DATE: May 21, 2010
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RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. has expanded its executive committee from seven members to 11, the Bermuda reinsurer announced yesterday.
The new members include Bermudian Jon Paradine, chief underwriting officer of Renaissance Reinsurance Ltd.
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DATE: May 21, 2010
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index ended sharply lower yesterday, with commodity issues leading the slide on concerns that austerity policies for weak euro zone countries could hurt European and world growth.
The TSX fell as far as 11,381...
DATE: May 21, 2010
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DUBLIN (Bloomberg) — Ireland's banks need to "face up to reality" and take their losses on property loans now to avoid dragging the economy into a lost decade like Japan, the country's financial regulator said.
Matthew Elderfield, who left his role a...
DATE: May 21, 2010
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Bermuda reinsurers have a powerful backer in their battle against proposed US tax changes that could be harmful to the Island's biggest industry — the European Union.
The EU has fired off letters to several US trade and finance officials, including T...
DATE: May 21, 2010
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — American International Group Inc. fell by 6.7 percent in New York trading, heading for its seventh straight drop, the longest streak of declines in 15 months.
The bailed-out insurer slipped $2.52 to $34.81 in New York Stock Exc...
DATE: May 21, 2010
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Bermuda-based Omega Insurance Holdings Ltd. saw insurance sale rise by almost a fifth during the first quarter.
In its interim statement on the first three months of this year, Omega said gross written premiums rose 18 percent to $124.5 million, comp...
DATE: May 21, 2010
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Governor David Paterson yesterday proposed lifting the sales tax on diet soda, while adding a new "sugar tax" to full-calorie drinks, in a fresh bid to boost revenue for the cash-strapped state.
The proposed tax would ge...
DATE: May 21, 2010
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