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The risk of landfalling hurricanes in the Atlantic basin for the next five years remains significantly above that averaged over the long term - that is according to Risk Management Solutions.
It confirmed its modelled hurricane activity rates for 200...
DATE: Nov 21, 2007
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto stock market's main index retraced its steps to finish higher yesterday as robust commodity shares helped offset fears of more fallout from US credit market woes.
Worries over the slumping US housing sector plagued the...
DATE: Nov 21, 2007
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XL Capital's executive vice president and chief operating officer Henry Keeling is scheduled to present at the Credit Suisse Insurance and Asset Management Conference at the Credit Suisse Conference Center in New York this Friday.
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DATE: Nov 21, 2007
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In a bid to attract more insurance business from Latin America to Bermuda, a Bermudian lawyer has been extolling the Island's virtues in the global scene to a joint meeting of two powerful risk management organisations in the region.
Policies introdu...
DATE: Nov 21, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - Merrill Lynch & Co., the world's biggest brokerage firm, ousted the co-head of its Asian fixed-income business amid a management shake-up following $8.4 billion of losses on sub-prime mortgage-related securities and bad loans.
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DATE: Nov 21, 2007
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve reported yesterday that it expects slower US economic growth and a slight bump up in unemployment next year due to the housing slump and a credit crunch. The board also said, however, that it thinks inflation wil...
DATE: Nov 21, 2007
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Construction of single-family homes in the US in October skidded to the lowest level in 16 years although the slide was cushioned somewhat by a rebound in apartment building.
The Commerce Department reported yesterday that total hou...
DATE: Nov 21, 2007
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IS it OK for a minister to live large? A new probe by Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Finance Committee, will certainly call into question whether it's appropriate for some leaders of multimillion-dollar ministries to live ...
DATE: Nov 21, 2007
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A "slump-proof" investment portfolio can be a challenge. It is what many investors demand in turbulent times, even though history indicates the stock market eventually recovers from its slumps anyway.
You should at least have a strategy in place befo...
DATE: Nov 21, 2007
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–NEW YORK (AP) - Each holiday season, a couple hard-to-find toys send parents hunting from store to store.
And, each season, they're soon forgotten: Has your Elmo gotten any tickles lately?
But this year, it looks like the gift everybody is looking f...
DATE: Nov 21, 2007
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