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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The fate of hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam was in the hands of a jury yesterday in the biggest Wall Street insider trading trial in decades, a case that featured FBI phone taps and former friends who testified against him.
Jur...
DATE: Apr 26, 2011
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International Business
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Raj Rajaratnam’s week-long defence at his insider trading trial amounted to a blizzard of numbers, graphs and documents.
Some litigation experts said the “data dump” strategy was an effort to convince the jury that Rajaratnam, wh...
DATE: Apr 20, 2011
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International Business
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MANHATTAN (Bloomberg) - Raj Rajaratnam, the Galleon Group LLC co-founder at the centre of largest crackdown on hedge-fund insider trading in US history, rested his case without taking the witness stand.
Defence lawyers told US District Judge Richard ...
DATE: Apr 19, 2011
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International Business
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) US companies face the sixth-highest effective tax rate in the world, according to a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
The tax rate for the largest US companies between 2006 and 2009 was 27.7 percent, compared with a non-US a...
DATE: Apr 15, 2011
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International Business
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) US Uncut, a group protesting corporate tax issues and government service cutbacks, claimed responsibility for a fake press release that said General Electric Co would return a “$3.2 billion tax refund”.
The release, which was pic...
DATE: Apr 15, 2011
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International Business
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GENEVA (AP) Privately held commodities trader Glencore International plans to float part of its stock for up to $11 billion next month, making it one of the largest public share offerings in recent years.
Dubbed “the biggest company you’ve never hear...
DATE: Apr 15, 2011
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International Business
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Bermuda-based Seadrill has entered into an agreement to sell the newly-built jack-up drilling rig West Juno to an undisclosed buyer incorporated in UK for $248.5 million.
Seadrill expects to record a gain on the sale of approximately $18 million on ...
DATE: Apr 14, 2011
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International Business
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Business Bermuda continued its Asian tour at the Shorex Wealth Management Forum held in Singapore this week.
The forum, which address the growing need of the Asian market for private banking, asset management and international tax planning solutions ...
DATE: Apr 14, 2011
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International Business
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YTB International Inc - the online travel company which has recruited at least 700 Bermudians - yesterday announced it has reached a settlement with the Office of the Illinois Attorney General over a civil action complaint alleging the company had vi...
DATE: Apr 13, 2011
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International Business
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Soaring oil prices and inflation in emerging economies pose new risks to global recovery but are not yet strong enough to derail it, the International Monetary Fund said yesterday.
The global lender’s latest assessment of world...
DATE: Apr 12, 2011
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International Business
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