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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canada main stock index posted its biggest three-day gain in 23 years, led by financial, commodity and telephone companies, after the US economy shrank less than expected and central banks cut borrowing costs.
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Mello Jones & Martin (MJM) has appointed law-library expert and knowledge manager Susan Crysler as library and information-services manager.
Ms Crysler, from British Columbia, will manage the MJM library and information centre, including legal resear...
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HOUSTON (AP) — Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest publicly traded oil company, reported income yesterday that shattered its own record for the biggest profit from operations by a US corporation, earning $14.83 billion in the third quarter.
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LONDON (AP) — It took Ella Jenkins and two teenage pals less than 15 minutes to give a thumbs up to London's biggest mall, which opened yesterday despite the gloomy economic climate that threatens to dampen vital Christmas sales.
Before Westfield Lon...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street displayed some welcome signs of stability yesterday, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average up nearly 190 points in a relatively calm session despite some downbeat economic news. Even the last hour of trading, lately a p...
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MILAN (Bloomberg) — Assicurazioni Generali SpA, Europe's third-biggest insurer, said third-quarter profit fell 64 percent, missing analysts' estimates, on write-downs linked to the global financial crisis and lower income from its life business.
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — American International Group Inc., the insurer with a $122.8 billion credit line from the U.S., got another $20.9 billion under the Federal Reserve's commercial paper programme designed to unlock short-term debt markets.
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Bermuda-based American Safety Insurance Group has had its financial strength rating of A affirmed by AM Best.
The ratings agency also announced yesterday that it was affirming the company's issuer credit rating (ICR) of "a" .
Best also has affirmed t...
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Bermuda-based insurer Ironshore has announced the resignation of its president and chief underwriting officer effective today.
Ironshore said that Leslie Rock, who has been with the company since it formed in Bermuda in January 2007, was leaving his ...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Former Refco Group Ltd. president Tone Grant, a decorated US Marine Corps veteran, entered a US prison to begin serving a ten-year sentence for defrauding investors of $2.4 billion in an eight-year accounting scheme.
Grant, 64,...
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