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NEW YORK (AP) — While at a summer barbecue with her brother and his friends, Joyce Kim checked her e-mail and saw an unfamiliar name.The e-mail was from a guy she'd supposedly met at a party who now wanted to take her out on a date. The only problem ...
DATE: Jun 13, 2007
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SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. chief executive officer Steve Jobs stopped short of giving outside developers a way to incorporate applications into the company's iPhone handset.The shares fell 3.5 percent after Jobs announced the decision not...
DATE: Jun 12, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks finished a wobbly session flat yesterday as stubbornly high bond yields discouraged investors from extending Wall Street's recovery from last week's steep losses.The yield on the Treasury's 10-year note rose to 5.15 percent yes...
DATE: Jun 12, 2007
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LONDON — The FTSE 100 index of Britain's leading shares ended up 0.96 percent to reverse some of the losses suffered last week after fears that global interest rates were headed higher. The FTSE 100 closed at 6,567.5 points, up 62.4 or 0.96 percent.R...
DATE: Jun 12, 2007
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In the wake of the ongoing US multi-district litigation surrounding contingent commissions and allegations of bid-rigging and anti-trust practices allowed by insurance firms and brokers, legal experts have spoken of the way forward while visiting Ber...
DATE: Jun 12, 2007
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More US brokers will be heading to Bermuda in 2008 for the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) symposium if organisers of this year's fourth annual event have their way.
The two-day symposium attracted just over 200 delegates last week...
DATE: Jun 12, 2007
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A spate of selling on China's stock markets at the beginning of the month was pretty much ignored by major bourses in the rest of the world.The common interpretation was that the correction would have a primarily domestic impact and not a world-wide ...
DATE: Jun 12, 2007
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A Bermuda-based holding company organised by global investment management company D.E. Shaw is set to buy insurance holding company James River.
And if the deal goes through, James River expects to add a new Bermuda-based insurance company to its gro...
DATE: Jun 12, 2007
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks rose for a second day, extending their rebound after the benchmark index's biggest two-day loss in almost a year, as investors bet company profits will withstand higher borrowing costs.
Raw-materials producers in...
DATE: Jun 12, 2007
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Attorney John Woods, of Hunton & Williams, represented the defendants in the case highlighted in the story headlined 'Grandaddy of all insurance class actions' and not the plaintiffs, as was incorrectly reported in Friday's edition. We apologise for ...
DATE: Jun 12, 2007
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