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WASHINGTON (AP) - The chairman, president and chief executive of Ingersoll-Rand Co. received 2007 compensation valued at $10.6 million, a 4.4-percent increase over the year before, according to a regulatory filing yesterday.
The Bermuda-based diversi...
DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — The chairman of the House panel that oversees insurers said he will introduce legislation to create a federal regulator for the industry for the first time in more than 135 years.
The plan by Representative Paul Kanjorski, a ...
DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Marriott International Inc., the world's largest lodging company, said first-quarter profit declined 34 percent, matching analysts' estimates, after travellers booked fewer hotel rooms as the US economy slowed.
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DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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LONDON (AP) — Britain's competition regulator accused 112 construction companies yesterday of colluding on bids. A construction industry federation contended that the alleged violations did not result in extra costs for buildings.
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DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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HOUSTON (AP) — Continental Airlines Inc. said yesterday that soaring fuel costs pushed it to a loss for the first quarter, and it plans to retrench by mothballing planes and reducing flights.
Also, Continental took a small but public step toward comb...
DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - A group of attorneys once affiliated with tort lawyer Richard (Dickie) Scruggs was disqualified from a case that accuses an insurance company of racketeering in its handling of policyholder claims after Hurricane Katrina.
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DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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BRUSSELS (Bloomberg) — European Union regulators are considering scrapping an antitrust exemption that allows European insurers, reinsurers and brokers to share data, write standard contract terms and set premiums.
The European Commission, the EU's a...
DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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BRUSSELS (Bloomberg) — Billionaire George Soros said the boom in commodities is still in a "growth phase" after prices for oil, wheat and gold rose to records.
"There is a commodity bubble which is still in the growth phase," Soros said yesterday at ...
DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) — Merrill Lynch & Co., the world's largest brokerage, said yesterday it would cut another 3,000 jobs after more than $6.5 billion of fresh write-downs pushed it to a loss for the first quarter.
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DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices slipped from record highs yesterday after a drop in US inventories and the weaker dollar had pushed prices above $115 a barrel.
US crude settled down seven cents at $114.86 a barrel after rallying to an all-time peak o...
DATE: Apr 18, 2008
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