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Shoppers will be able to make orders for home delivery via the Internet thanks to an upgraded website launched by Gibbons Company this month.
Everything from the latest fashions in clothes to bedding and dinnerware is now just a click away after the ...
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner defended the administration's proposal to give the Federal Reserve increased powers in his first public tussle with lawmakers sceptical whether the central bank is up to the job.
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd., the Bermuda-based reinsurer, will pay incoming chief financial officer Jeffrey Kelly an annual base salary of $525,000.
Kelly, 55, will be eligible for a target annual cash bonus of $577,500 and a t...
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WILMINGTON, Delaware (Bloomberg) - General Re Corp., an insurer owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., won dismissal of a lawsuit accusing it of helping former American International Group Inc. (AIG) CEO Maurice "Hank" Greenberg defraud i...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A US bankruptcy judge has approved a request by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc to create a protocol for interacting with many of its foreign entities, in a move that could help the bank complete its wind down.
Lehman, which filed f...
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - HSBC Holdings plc., Europe's biggest bank, expects insurance sales in Asia to rise 18 percent this year as it sells more through banks and gains market share from competitors including American International Group Inc. (AIG)
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MONACO, June 18 (Reuters) - Hedge funds are going to have to dance to their investors' tune once more as lucrative profits fall and a new breed of clients begins flexing its muscles, demanding more results from managers.
Institutional clients, a grow...
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — US tyre companies are being harmed by products from China, a US agency ruled, setting up a decision by President Barack Obama on whether to impose tariffs or quotas on America's biggest source of imports.
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Bermudian Jenia Thompson is to open a new online clothes and accessories outlet, to be called the Lovit Boutique.
Ms Thompson said her aim was to attract shoppers who wanted to buy classy apparel at an affordable price.
"I've always had a passion for...
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LONDON (AP) — The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC said yesterday that its former chief executive Fred Goodwin has agreed to halve his annual pension after outrage at the size of the payout and threats by the government to take legal action.
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DATE: Jun 19, 2009
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