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LONDON - Britain's top shares ticked down, with weakness in food retailers and tobacco firms outpacing gains in miners and energy firms, while Marks & Spencer was boosted by the appointment of a new chief executive.
The FTSE 100 closed 0.1 percent lo...
DATE: Nov 19, 2009
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — The US Securities and Exchange Commission, stepping up enforcement in the wake of a global financial crisis, said it opened more inquiries, brought claims faster and doubled sanctions in the latest fiscal year.
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Bermuda-based business insurer XL Capital Ltd. has won approval from regulators to establish a property and casualty subsidiary in China.
In line with China Insurance Regulatory Commission's licence approval process and under the leadership of Andrew...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Orbis Funds, the asset manager that opposed takeover offers by Warren Buffett and Citigroup Inc., rejected Canon Inc.'s 730 million euro ($1.1 billion) bid to buy unprofitable Dutch printer maker Oce NV as too low...
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) — Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's yacht Bull, two smaller boats and a Mercedes-Benz convertible were sold at auction on Tuesday for more than $1 million combined.
Madoff's 1969 Rybovich, a restored 55-foot fishing b...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some 14,700 rich Americans worried about a US government crackdown on offshore tax cheats came forward to participate in a tax amnesty programme, the top US tax official said yesterday.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Ford, Subaru and Volkswagen sit atop the US insurance industry's annual list of the safest new vehicles, according to a closely watched assessment used by car companies to lure safety-conscious consumers to showrooms.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc could have suffered dramatic losses if the federal government had not intervened to prop up American International Group Inc , according to a government report. The report by the special inspector general ...
DATE: Nov 19, 2009
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Lloyd's of London said admissions made by accused Ponzi scheme operator Allen Stanford's former chief financial officer when he pleaded guilty relieves the insurance syndicate of the obligation to pay defence costs for Stanford a...
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe's largest bank by market value, is in exclusive talks with an unidentified property fund to sell its Paris headquarters.
HSBC is discussing the sale of 103 avenue des Champs-Elysees and neighbouring 15 r...
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