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When leaders of the world's biggest economies meet tomorrow for the G-20 summit in London, offshore financial centres are expected to be in their line of fire.
Several members of the Group of 20 — including Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown and F...
DATE: Apr 01, 2009
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SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) - Google Inc., owner of the world's most popular search engine, started a venture-capital unit to fund new technologies as it looks for fresh revenue sources.
Google Ventures will invest $100 million in its first year and mo...
DATE: Apr 01, 2009
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) - Canadian stocks rose, capping their first monthly gain since August, as banks advanced after Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he would support efforts by lenders to buy assets from abroad.
Royal Bank of Canada and Toronto-Domi...
DATE: Apr 01, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — American International Group Inc., the company rescued four times by the US government, is being probed by 50 state insurance regulators examining whether the firm violated rules governing workers' compensation sales.
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DATE: Apr 01, 2009
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NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street has ended a tumultuous March on a high note, managing its first winning month this year and its best monthly performance in nearly seven years.
Stocks finished off their earlier highs yesterday but resumed a three-week ral...
DATE: Apr 01, 2009
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Bermuda-based holding company American Safety Insurance Holdings Ltd. has revealed that William Tepe, the company's chief financial officer (CFO) has resigned to pursue other interests.
The resignation is effective immediately.
"Bill has been a valua...
DATE: Apr 01, 2009
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Home prices sank by the sharpest annual rate on record in January, and the pace continues to accelerate, but there were a handful of battered metro areas where price declines slowed, according to data released yesterday.
The Standar...
DATE: Apr 01, 2009
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — UK services shrank the most in at least 15 years in the three months through January as the recession deepened and companies from banks to hotels axed jobs.
The 1.3 percent fall was the largest since records began in 1994 and fol...
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Luxembourg's prime minister, who is under pressure to open his country's banks to outside scrutiny, told President Barack Obama yesterday to clamp down on tax havens at home before attacking those in Europe.
Jean-Claude Juncker said U...
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Finance Minister Paula Cox feels that Bermuda is "well positioned" on the eve of a meeting of leaders of the world's major economic powers which could result in measures being taken against offshore financial centres.
Her comments come after it was c...
DATE: Apr 01, 2009
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