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BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — European airlines claimed yesterday that the European Union's plan to make them join a greenhouse gas cap-and-trade system would cripple them with extra costs of [EURO]4 billion ($5.4 billion) a year, wiping out potential fut...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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TOULOUSE (Bloomberg) — Airbus SAS won a $2.4 billion Aer Lingus Group Plc order for 12 planes, with the second commitment in a week to the redesigned long-range A350 that competes with Boeing Co.'s 787.Aer Lingus, which has an all-Airbus fleet, will ...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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LONDON (Reuters) — More than two million young property owners have conceded they will struggle to meet their mortgage repayments amid rising interest rates.Some 2.07 million homeowners aged between 18 and 34 — the majority of them first-time buyers ...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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A slight fall in the value of Argus Group shares was reflected in a 1.73 point (0.03 percent) slip in the Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange which ended the day at 5,147.55.
Argus shares lost five cents (0.3 percent) to close at $15 after 13,700 ...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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SHANGHAI (Bloomberg) — Willis Group Holdings Ltd., the world's third-largest insurance broker, plans to buy out its joint venture in China, where property and casualty coverage premiums rose almost 50 percent in this year's first four months.Willis "...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Lloyd's of London, the world's biggest insurance market, is selling bonds to help reduce costs for members of the mutually owned institution.Lloyd's, which began 319 years ago as a place where merchants, ship owners and captains ...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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Reinsurers hit by big losses from the 2005 hurricanes of Katrina, Rita and Wilma who have since sought to diversify into non-catastrophe business lines are facing diminishing returns.
And the flip-side of the emerging picture shows that "unfashionabl...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Shareholders of Ingersoll-Rand Co., the Bermuda-based maker of Bobcat machinery and Thermo-King refrigerated trucks, approved a proposal urging directors to adopt a policy allowing for an advisory stockholder vote on executive ...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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Former US Navy commander D. Michael Abrashoff was an unusual choice of speaker at the Professional Liability Underwriting Society's two-day business symposium in Hamilton.
Yet captains of industry from across Bermuda's multi-billion dollar insurance ...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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LONDON (AP) — Online gaming operator Sportingbet PLC said yesterday it swung to a loss in the third quarter after being forced to quit the US because of legislation that makes online gambling illegal in that country.The net loss for the three months ...
DATE: Jun 07, 2007
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