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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — American International Group Inc., the insurer selling assets to repay a US government loan, should pull its Tokyo headquarters building from the market, former chief executive officer Maurice (Hank) Greenberg said.
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DATE: Feb 20, 2009
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It's a sad fact that clearing unexploded ordnance is one of the world's great growth industries.
At current rates of progress, it would take about 1,000 years to remove all the mines and bombs that menace the hot spots of the world — and that's if no...
DATE: Feb 20, 2009
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WASHINGTON/ST.JOHN'S (Reuters) - US law enforcement officials found Texas billionaire Allen Stanford in the Fredericksburg, Virginia, area yesterday, and served him with a complaint accusing him of an $8 billion fraud.
FBI spokesman Richard Kolko sai...
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Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for an international drive against tax havens as part of a planned "global new deal" to tackle the international recession.
Mr. Brown is believed to have won the support of other world leaders for to t...
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LONDON (Reuters) - Tumbling tax receipts in January drove Britain's budget deficit for the fiscal year so far to a record high and statisticians warned bank bailouts could raise total debt by up to £1.5 trillion ($2.15 trillion), or 100 percent of GD...
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Citigroup plans to make job cuts at its Bermuda operations, where it employs some 230 people, The Royal Gazette has learned.
Sources have revealed to this newspaper that some staff will definitely go, without saying how many, or when the cuts will ta...
DATE: Feb 20, 2009
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XL Capital Ltd. chief executive officer Mike McGavick believes the United States will see Bermuda's insurance industry as "too valuable to undermine" when lawmakers consider whether to make tax law changes that could hurt the Island's major industry....
DATE: Feb 20, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Winter storm Klaus, which struck Europe last month, may cost insurers as much as 1 billion euros ($1.27 billion) on French claims, according to a firm that estimates losses from natural disasters.
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H. Davidson and Co. is to cease trading on May 1 after nearly 40 years in business — but its dive shop and some of its wholesale unit will remain in operation under new ownership.
The Thistle Gallery, on Park Street, Hamilton, an antique and collecti...
DATE: Feb 20, 2009
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ST. JOHN'S, Antigua (Reuters) - C.A.S. Hewlett & Co, the small Antiguan firm that Texas billionaire Allen Stanford identified as the auditors of his offshore bank, said yesterday it had no information about ties to the tycoon accused of fraud.
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