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MUNICH (Bloomberg) — Munich Re forecasts more natural catastrophes will fuel “longer term” demand for reinsurance and support higher rates despite a calm hurricane season this year.The world’s second-biggest reinsurer estimates worldwide losses on ca...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — US existing home sales rose in November for a second straight month and consumer confidence hit an eight-month high in December, according to reports yesterday showing the economy ending the year on a solid note.Other reports s...
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — With one blow, Mother Nature triggered the largest telecommunications outage in years, cutting off or slowing telephone and Internet traffic in Asia from Beijing to Bangkok.A powerful earthquake off the southern tip of Taiwan la...
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What can we expect in the way of technological advances in the coming year? It is certainly still a Microsoft world for the business and home desk computer user. I hope you managed to hold off on buying a new computer with a Microsoft operating syste...
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The owners of the Horizons and Cottages resort and the Coral Beach and Tennis Club have announced plans to offer fractional ownership of proposed new luxury cottages.
Rumours have been rife that the Wardman family has been planning to sell off the tw...
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Bermuda-based Paris Re Holdings Ltd. has completed the purchase of AXA Re, the reinsurance arm of France’s AXA Group.
Paris Re is headed by Hans-Peter Gerhardt, formerly chief executive officer of AXA Re and AXA retains a 3.4 percent stake in the Ham...
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TORONTO (Reuters) — The Toronto Stock Exchange’s main index extended robust gains for a second straight session yesterday, as investors appeared determined to end 2006 on a positive note.Amid a broad-based rally, the S&P/TSX composite index gained 56...
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What can we expect in the way of technological advances in the coming year? It is certainly still a Microsoft world for the business and home desk computer user. I hope you managed to hold off on buying a new computer with a Microsoft operating syste...
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — If Apple’s iPod is the nicely tuned Porsche of portable media players and Microsoft’s Zune is the Jetta, then a new Wi-Fi-enabled unit from Archos is the Hummer, a brutish performer with all the tools to navigate the rugged terra...
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Nasdaq Stock Market said yesterday it will close next Tuesday as part of a national day of mourning to mark the funeral of President Gerald R. Ford. And the New York Stock Exchange may close too.It was expected that the stock exch...
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