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PartnerRe Ltd. has announced that the valuation period for its maturing forward sale agreement began last week.
Under the terms of the forward sale agreement, PartnerRe expects to deliver 3,366,295 common shares to an affiliate of Citigroup over a 40...
DATE: Sep 29, 2008
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Key lawmakers who struck a post-midnight deal on a $700 billion bailout for the financial industry predicted yesterday it would pass Congress, putting in place the largest government intervention in markets since the Great Depressio...
DATE: Sep 29, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - Washington Mutual Inc. (WaMu) bondholders are likely to lose most of their money after the thrift was seized in the largest US bank failure in history, according to CreditSights Inc.
WaMu was taken over after customers withdrew...
DATE: Sep 27, 2008
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Q. I am unhappy with the performance of my stock in Vodafone Group plc. I had been told it was such a great company. - FR, via the Internet
A. The world's largest cellular phone service provider by sales has enormous size and outreach. It has either ...
DATE: Sep 27, 2008
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What is the counterparty risk in your investments? Sounds kind of like the colloquial Bermudian greeting, "Whose ya' family?" But, this is a serious question with serious overtones that certainly was not in the average investor's vocabulary a year ag...
DATE: Sep 27, 2008
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Butterfield Bank continued its recent descent by dropping 25 cents (1.94 percent) on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
The bank closed on $12.60, with 47,446 shares traded.
The only other trader was also in the banking s...
DATE: Sep 27, 2008
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You have fallen over and are lying on the floor, unable to get up. Meanwhile, the fuse on a large pile of dynamite has been lit 50 feet from you. It will, at the least, maim you if you do not get up and extinguish the fuse. You go through your pocket...
DATE: Sep 27, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) - Financial markets remained on edge yesterday after the Bush administration's proposal for a $700 billion banking bailout ran into opposition from Republican lawmakers. Stocks ended mixed, with big financial companies lifting the Dow J...
DATE: Sep 27, 2008
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index slumped more than three percent yesterday, battered by a sell-off in Research In Motion, tumbling resource shares and uncertainty over the US financial rescue plan.
Tech bellwether RIM set t...
DATE: Sep 27, 2008
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AMSTERDAM (Bloomberg) — Fortis, the financial-services company that set out in June to raise 8.3 billion euros ($12.2 billion) to bolster capital, fell the most since it was formed 18 years ago on concern it needs help with funding.
"The rumours abou...
DATE: Sep 26, 2008
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