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DALLAS (AP) - American Airlines canceled more than 1,000 flights yesterday, more than one-third of its schedule, as it spent a second straight day inspecting the wiring on some of its jets - the same issue that caused it to scrub hundreds of flights ...
DATE: Apr 10, 2008
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Flagstone Re has been voted runner-up property/casualty reinsurer of the year in the Reactions Magazine's 2008 Readers Awards.
The Church Street-based reinsurer, which was only formed in 2005, came just behind first-placed General Re and ahead of thi...
DATE: Apr 10, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Citigroup Inc. is in talks to sell $12 billion of loans at a loss to Apollo Management LP, Blackstone Group LP and TPG Inc. as part of an effort to shrink the bank's balance sheet, a person briefed on the matter said.
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DATE: Apr 10, 2008
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Work permit backlogs at Immigration are adding to hoteliers' difficulties in finding and retaining the foreign staff they need in light of a shortage of Bermudians employees in the hospitality industry.
That was one of the points made by business peo...
DATE: Apr 10, 2008
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index ended slightly higher yesterday, as nagging worries over fall-out from the credit crunch offset strong resource issues, as oil surged to a record high.
The energy sector, which makes up abou...
DATE: Apr 10, 2008
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — The International Monetary Fund urged US policy-makers to strengthen their response to the housing slump and called on the European Central Bank to lower interest rates as the global economy cools.
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DATE: Apr 10, 2008
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LONDON (Reuters) - British shop price inflation eased slightly in March but held in the tight range that has prevailed for the past six months, the British Retail Consortium said yesterday.
The BRC reported annual shop price inflation slipped to 1.1 ...
DATE: Apr 10, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — American International Group Inc., the largest insurer by assets, projects operating profit from non-US life insurance and retirement services to climb about 88 percent by 2012 on growth in countries including China.
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DATE: Apr 10, 2008
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling appointed James Crosby, a former chief executive officer of Britain's biggest mortgage lender, to study ways to improve the market for home loans.
Crosby, who led HBOS Plc until 2006, ...
DATE: Apr 10, 2008
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Jewellery giant the Signet Group is tentatively planning to redomicile to Bermuda.
The London-based company stated in its year-end results release yesterday that discussions between directors and major investors had led it to believe that most shareh...
DATE: Apr 10, 2008
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