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MUMBAI (Bloomberg) — India's telecommunications regulator recommended overseas holdings in Internet service providers be limited to 74 percent, matching the rules for other phone businesses and adding a layer of security.The Telecom Regulatory Author...
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An entrepreneur from a young age, Kumi Bradshaw took a hiatus from college to start his first business while still in his teens.
He chuckled as he remembered some of the 'learning opportunities', which spurred him to return to college. In 2006, he co...
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Endurance Specialty Holdings is buyback 18 million of its ordinary shares.
The board of directors of the property and casualty insurer and reinsurer has approved the repurchase, which represents an increase of 16 million shares from the original aut...
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Newcomer Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings achieved a profit of $35.6 million in the first quarter of 2007.
The company was set up in 2005 and made its initial public offering on April 1 this year raising $175.5 million.
During the opening three months ...
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — The UK's Financial Services Authority will next month publish market participants' feedback to its paper on potential risks created by the growing influence of private equity firms.Excessive borrowing by buyout firms to fund take...
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Clean Air Power Ltd., a developer of pollution-reducing technology for trucks, said it expanded its Australian operations to meet higher demand and increase sales of its Dual-FuelTM technology.The company received a...
DATE: May 10, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Primus Guaranty Ltd., the only publicly traded company that makes most of its money investing in credit-default swaps, said it had a net loss in the first quarter as the market value of its portfolio fell.The net ...
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LONDON - The FTSE 100 of Britain's leading shares ended flat as Rio Tinto topped the gainers on bid talk but nerves ahead of rate decisions in the United States and Europe left the market subdued.
The FTSE 100 ended 0.8 points, or 0.01 percent lower ...
DATE: May 10, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street wobbled, then regained its stride after the Federal Reserve told investors what they expected to hear: that inflation is still too high for comfort, but the central bank is holding interest rates steady. The Dow Jones indu...
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Reinsurer Munich Re AG said yesterday it will acquire Bell & Clements Group, an insurance underwriter with operations in the US and British markets.
The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Munich Re said the acquisitio...
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