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NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street began a holiday-shortened week with a moderate pull-back yesterday as investors recoiled at bleak news from Toyota Motor Corp. and drugstore operator Walgreen Co.
The two companies - both viewed as better-positioned than m...
DATE: Dec 23, 2008
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Role: Payroll administrator, Expertise Ltd.
What is your job? I have recently spread my wings and joined the payroll services division where I assist in the administration of compensation, benefits, and general payroll services. Prior to this...
DATE: Dec 23, 2008
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LONDON (AP) — The administrators of British furniture chain MFI said they had failed to find a buyer for the firm and that all its stores had been closed with the loss of 1,400 jobs.
MCR, which took on responsibility for the struggling retailer last ...
DATE: Dec 23, 2008
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Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd.'s Bermuda subsidiary Aspen Insurance Ltd. and its UK subsidiary Aspen Insurance UK Ltd. have been affirmed the 'A' financial strength ratings by AM Best Co. Best also assigned a 'stable' outlook to the ratings.
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DATE: Dec 23, 2008
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Bermudian students will be able to get ahead in their career thanks to a new scholarship launched by The Montpelier Re Foundation. The scholarship, which will be awarded for the first time in 2009, is open to suitably qualified full-time Bermudian st...
DATE: Dec 23, 2008
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) - General Motors Corp. (GM) and Chrysler LLC, steadied by a $13.4 billion federal lifeline, face a March 31 deadline to slash debt, rework labour contracts and plan for thousands of job cuts or face government-ordered bankruptc...
DATE: Dec 23, 2008
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CHARLOTTE (AP) — American International Group Inc. said yesterday that it will sell its Hartford Steam Boiler unit to German reinsurer Munich Re for $742 million as the embattled New York-based insurer divests itself of units to pay back a US governm...
DATE: Dec 23, 2008
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Ace Ltd.'s ratings outlook was revised to positive from stable by Standard & Poor's on Friday on the strength of strong operating performance and investment losses that were low in comparison to peers.
S&P also affirmed the financial strength and cou...
DATE: Dec 22, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Transatlantic Holdings Inc., the reinsurer owned by American International Group Inc., may be cut by Standard & Poor's because of "uncertainty" around AIG and earnings that missed the ratings firm's expectations.
AIG's majority...
DATE: Dec 22, 2008
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Standard & Poor's said on Friday that it may downgrade the ratings of Everest Re Group Ltd. because the insurer's underwriting performance fell below the rating agency's expectations.
S&P has A- counterparty credit ratings on Everest and its US-based...
DATE: Dec 22, 2008
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