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TORONTO (BLOOMBERG) - Canadian stocks fell for a fourth time in five days as financial shares declined on concern that credit-related losses may mount.
Bank of Montreal paced the retreat with its steepest drop in almost eight years.
The Standard & Po...
DATE: Mar 07, 2008
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior US Senate Democrat yesterday left open the chance of reconsideration and compromise on a housing bill that was blocked last week by Republicans amid a growing mortgage finance crisis.
"There's a chance to bring back th...
DATE: Mar 07, 2008
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) - Former US vice-president Al Gore left the White House seven years ago with less than $2 million in assets, including a Virginia home and the family farm in Tennessee. Now he is making enough to put $35 million in hedge funds ...
DATE: Mar 07, 2008
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Slumping Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. on Wednesday postponed a key deadline in a looming battle with spurned suitor Microsoft Corp., hoping to gain more wiggle room as it tries to escape a takeover.
The Sunnyvale-based company's m...
DATE: Mar 07, 2008
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Segro Plc, Britain's largest owner of business parks, plans to invest more in the UK this year once commercial property prices stop declining.
For the first time in four years, the company will acquire more real estate in the UK ...
DATE: Mar 07, 2008
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Pension fund holders were given a taste of things to come at the Argus Group's series of pension seminars held at the Daylesford Theatre in Hamilton yesterday.
The event, which was split up into three one-hour sessions, saw Lauren Bell, executive vic...
DATE: Mar 07, 2008
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Bermuda is still the number one captive of choice, according to Business Insurance's latest spotlight report on the captive industry.
The online insurance website revealed that the Island came top of the pile for top off-shore domiciles, closely foll...
DATE: Mar 07, 2008
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Banks have made a firm commitment to buy more than $500 million of Ambac Financial Group shares if other investors do not buy them, a person briefed on the matter said yesterday.
Ambac said on Wednesday it was selling at least $1...
DATE: Mar 07, 2008
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BRUSSELS (Bloomberg) — European Financial Services Commissioner Charlie McCreevy urged lawmakers and governments to approve a proposed insurance overhaul this year, or they will set back the change sought by the industry to start in 2012.
The Europea...
DATE: Mar 07, 2008
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Catlin Group Ltd., the largest insurer in the Lloyd's insurance market, said 2007 profit climbed a better-than-estimated 78 percent, helped by the acquisition of UK rival Wellington Underwriting Plc.
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DATE: Mar 07, 2008
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