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Shadow Finance Minister E.T. (Bob) Richards has expressed serious concerns about the growing list of companies leaving Bermuda in recent months.
Willis Group Holdings Ltd. was the latest Bermuda-domiciled firm to announce plans to move to Ireland, as...
DATE: Sep 23, 2009
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LONDON - Britain's top share index edged higher as miners and oil stocks buoyed by firmer commodity prices lent support, though with investors nervous before the Group of 20 leaders' meeting at the end of the week. The FTSE 100 closed at 5,142.6 poin...
DATE: Sep 23, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Fortitude Capital, an Australian hedge fund run by a former Citigroup Inc. trader, has been unable to arrest a slump in assets after redemptions from some investors who lost money with Bernard Madoff helped cut its managed fund...
DATE: Sep 23, 2009
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index closed more than one percent higher yesterday as a rally in oil prices lit a fire under energy shares and left the index just shy of its highest level in nearly a year.
The gain in the index's energy sec...
DATE: Sep 23, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Verisk Analytics Inc., the supplier of actuarial data co-owned by property-casualty insurers including Travelers Cos. and CNA Financial Corp., plans to raise as much as $2.06 billion in an initial share sale that could be the l...
DATE: Sep 23, 2009
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NEW YORK (AP) — The world of high fashion is coming down to earth a bit.
Trenchcoats, jumpsuits, sumptuous sweater sets and billowy dresses intended to flatter a wider range of body shapes and sizes ruled the runway at New York Fashion Week, which sh...
DATE: Sep 23, 2009
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WASHINGTON — US tax dodgers who hid assets overseas will get a few extra weeks to apply for an amnesty programme that has been flooded with applications ahead of today's deadline.
The Internal Revenue Service, the government tax-collecting agency, sa...
DATE: Sep 23, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — American International Group Inc., the insurer bailed out by the US, shed 10,000 employees in the first half of the year by selling units and cutting jobs.
AIG employed about 106,000 people as of June 30, the US Government Acco...
DATE: Sep 23, 2009
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — JD Sports Fashion Plc, the UK's second-largest sportswear chain, said first-half profit rose 16 percent as the retailer's teenage customers continued to buy the latest designs of sneakers and training gear.
Net income climbed to ...
DATE: Sep 23, 2009
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NEW YORK (AP) - Matching mullets, regrettable tattoos, metal mouths and goofy grins.
Such long-lost looks were never meant to be seen by anyone except those flipping through the pages of an old family album or studying the photo frames on the firepla...
DATE: Sep 23, 2009
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