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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US farmers are poised to harvest their second-largest corn crop on record after near-ideal growing weather boosted yields to a projected record high, the US Agriculture Department said on Friday.
USDA pegged the corn crop, used...
DATE: Oct 12, 2009
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MIAMI (Reuters) - The key informant in the US tax evasion case against Swiss bank UBS AG faces prison next year, but his harsher-than-expected treatment by the US Justice Department will undermine efforts to expose secretive offshore tax havens, lawy...
DATE: Oct 12, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Aon Corp., the biggest insurance broker, and No. 2 Marsh & McLennan Cos. will expand by acquiring smaller rivals forced by the recession to find a buyer, Advisen Ltd. said.
"Consolidation will continue at a brisk pace," John Mo...
DATE: Oct 12, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — The watchdog for the US government's bailout programme will report the results of his audit of bonuses paid to American International Group Inc. executives at a congressional hearing this week.
Neil Barofsky, the special inspec...
DATE: Oct 12, 2009
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Q. Does the future look bright for Motorola Inc.? Will its stock reward us? - PM, via the Internet
A. The world's third-largest manufacturer of wireless handsets hopes to revive its glory days when the Razr phone was the hippest item around.
It is ba...
DATE: Oct 10, 2009
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From an inauspicious beginning in 1969 in the United States where Mr. Loren Dunton and 13 other dedicated financial professionals founded the Society for Financial Counseling Ethics, the profession has grown to more than 112,000 holders of the Certif...
DATE: Oct 10, 2009
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In the past 10 days, the two pre-eminent political leaders of Bermuda have stated that the introduction of income and corporation tax might be on the table. The reported comments of Premier Dr. Ewart Brown and Minister of Finance Paula Cox follow. Ne...
DATE: Oct 10, 2009
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Argus Group Holdings Ltd. dropped 8.5 percent (85 cents) on The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) yesterday.
The insurer closed the day at $9.15, with 2,100 shares traded.
Butterfield Bank's common shares, however, rose five cents (1.03 percent) to $4.90,...
DATE: Oct 10, 2009
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Wondering what the next bubble might be? How about a merger boom?
All the signs are that the global capital markets are gearing up for the next big thing: a wave of mergers and takeover bids. Kraft Foods Inc. is stalking UK confectionery maker Cadbur...
DATE: Oct 10, 2009
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Banks lent out more money, customers ramped up savings and more borrowers fell behind with loan repayments in the second quarter of this year, according to information released by the Bermuda Monetary Authority.
The revelations came in the BMA's firs...
DATE: Oct 09, 2009
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