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LONDON (AP) — Declining oil prices and mounting safety spending sent BP PLC’s fourth-quarter profit down 22 percent to a two-year low, the oil company said yesterday.Following a series of high-profile mishaps including a deadly refinery blast in Texa...
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Bermuda reinsurer RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. will pay a $15 million fine to settle an investigation into “sham” accounting, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said yesterday.
The SEC accused the company of using accounting trickery thro...
DATE: Feb 07, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street eked out a modest advance yesterday after investors found little motivation in remarks by Federal Reserve officials and also shrugged off a warning from chip maker National Semiconductor Inc.Major indexes squeaked by with ...
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After my initial review of Office 2007 was published last week a reader wrote to say how overwhelmed she feels about having to constantly update software... expensive software. She uses Microsoft Office 2000 a lot as she publishes a quarterly newslet...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Tyco International Ltd., the world’s biggest maker of electronic connectors and security systems, said first-quarter earnings fell 7.6 percent on tax, legal and debt costs to split the conglomerate into three inde...
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CHICAGO (Bloomberg) — Nabors Industries Ltd., an oil driller whose shares surged last week on buyout speculation, said fourth-quarter profit rose 31 percent to $276 million as rig demand surged.Net income increased to 97 cents from $210.6 million, or...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Bermuda-based Security Capital Assurance Ltd. reached a new high yesterday after the bond insurer reported increases in fourth-quarter earnings and revenue.Profit of $35.8 million, or 56 cents per share, compared with $27 mi...
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The Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of June 2006 limited the amount of foreign housing exclusion that can be elected by US citizens and resident aliens living outside the United States. The Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 that w...
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SAN JOSE, California (AP) — With each update to its Office suite, Microsoft Corp. has piled on features aimed at boosting users’ productivity and spurring sales of the world’s most widely used collection of programs for handling documents, spreadshee...
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AFTER my initial review of Office 2007 was published last week a reader wrote to say how overwhelmed she feels about having to constantly update software... expensive software. She uses Microsoft Office 2000 a lot as she publishes a quarterly newslet...
DATE: Feb 07, 2007
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