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Max Capital Group Ltd. yesterday reported an 18 percent fall in net earnings in the first quarter and a decrease in insurance sales.
The Bermuda-based re/insurer made net income of $36.4 million, or 63 cents per share, for the first quarter, compared...
DATE: May 04, 2010
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Billionaire Warren Buffett praised Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO Lloyd Blankfein and said the bank shouldn't be blamed for losses suffered by clients who invested in mortgage bets at the centre of a fraud lawsuit filed by regula...
DATE: May 04, 2010
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Net income: $31.5 million compared to $35.7 million in 2009.
Gross premiums written: $400.2 million compared to $361.5 million in 2009.
Combined ratio: 97.6 percent compared to 80.4 percent in 2009.
DATE: May 04, 2010
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Nordic American Tanker Shipping Limited (the "Company") announced April 12, 2010 that preliminary contracts had been entered into with Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. ("Samsung"), for the construction of two suezmax tankers to be delivered in the ...
DATE: May 04, 2010
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A move by state agencies to crack down on inappropriate web surfing by state employees has erupted in the Vermont Statehouse as a debate over workplace privacy rights.
The issue is coming to a head in the nation's smallest state capital just a week a...
DATE: May 04, 2010
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index closed lower yesterday as gold miners fell on profit-taking, outweighing a rise in financials and general market optimism over an aid package for Greece.
Barrick Gold Corp, the world's biggest gold produ...
DATE: May 04, 2010
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Honda Motor Co. posted April US sales that missed analysts' estimates even as the auto market may have continued to strengthen.
Deliveries rose 6.4 percent from a year earlier at Detroit- ...
DATE: May 04, 2010
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HOUSTON (AP) – United Airlines has agreed to buy Continental in a $3 billion-plus deal that would create the world's largest carrier.
The new United would surpass Delta Air Lines in size, which should help it attract more high-fare business traveller...
DATE: May 04, 2010
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A majority of US workers do not clearly understand how to help their companies' meet objectives and most say they don't get useful feedback from supervisors, according to research released on last week.
One in four workers has a ...
DATE: May 04, 2010
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Telecommunications company KeyTech Ltd. experienced the largest fall in a busy week of trading that ended with the local stock market at its lowest level in 11 and a half years.
KeyTech, the owner of the Bermuda Telephone Company, slumped 90 cents, o...
DATE: May 03, 2010
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