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WASHINGTON (AP) — A high-level group of federal officials, bankers and mortgage industry executives meeting yesterday agreed on a goal of keeping deserving borrowers with high-risk mortgages in their homes at a time of rising foreclosures, a key bank...
DATE: Apr 17, 2007
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TORONTO (Reuters) — The Toronto Stock Exchange’s main index snapped a three-day winning streak to end marginally lower yesterday, as a drop in energy and materials issues offset telecoms strength after BCE Inc. said it was in talks that could lead to...
DATE: Apr 17, 2007
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Nosheen Syed is the first to admit that she took a major gamble when she abandoned a successful career in market research in North America to head up a Bermuda start-up company with no clients and no staff.
That company was Research.bm and as staff a...
DATE: Apr 17, 2007
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Bermuda-based PartnerRe Ltd. yesterday announced a number of management changes in the group’s US and world-wide catastrophe reinsurance underwriting operations.
Robin Williams, executive vice-president and chief underwriting officer of PartnerRe US,...
DATE: Apr 17, 2007
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The ethanol craze is putting the squeeze on corn supplies and causing food prices to rise.Mexicans took to the streets last year to protest increased tortilla prices. The cost of chicken and beef in the US ticked up because feed ...
DATE: Apr 16, 2007
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Battling to hold on to his job, World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz said misleading information has been circulating over his involvement in a huge pay increase awarded to a close female friend.Wolfowitz has been under fire since it...
DATE: Apr 16, 2007
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TORONTO (Reuters) — Corporate takeovers may have been last year’s story in the Canadian mining sector, but a recent flurry of announced deals combined with tight metals markets suggests the M&A bonanza will continue.The blockbuster takeovers of vener...
DATE: Apr 16, 2007
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The share price of insurer BF&M Ltd. surged more than five percent this week, after the company announced record profits of $23.9 million for last year — up 42 percent on 2005.
That was one of the highlights of trading on The Royal Gazette Bermuda St...
DATE: Apr 16, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the internet, some university researchers with the federal government’s blessing want to scrap all that and start over.The idea may seem unthinkable, even a...
DATE: Apr 16, 2007
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NEW YORK — As anxiety intensifies over rising inflation and the pace of economic growth, Wall Street is hungry for more information. This week, it’ll have a lot to chew on.Not only will investors receive reports on consumer prices and the housing mar...
DATE: Apr 16, 2007
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