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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street is set for another volatile week as US markets reopen after the Labour Day holiday, as investors ponder Hurricane Gustav, the price of oil, key economic data and continued fallout from the credit crisis.
Gustav initia...
DATE: Sep 02, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - Among property and casualty insurers, the steadiest profits are coming from the customer minnows, not the whales, helping to put more than a dozen companies in play.
Since Liberty Mutual Group Inc. agreed on April 23 to buy Saf...
DATE: Sep 02, 2008
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STOCKHOLM (Bloomberg) - West Siberian Resources Ltd., a Russian oil producer, jumped the most in more than two years in Stockholm trading after profit advanced following the acquisition of Alliance Oil Co.
West Siberian rallied as much as 1.1 kronor,...
DATE: Sep 02, 2008
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PARIS (Bloomberg) - EDF Energies Nouvelles SA, a unit of Europe's biggest power generator, and Renewable Energy Holdings plc. plan to start their first projects to harness wave power in Europe, Canada and Bermuda after a 59-percent increase in oil ma...
DATE: Sep 02, 2008
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BUENOS AIRES (Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City president Thomas Hoenig said for economies to work best, institutions must be allowed to 'fail'.
Economies must "find a balance between financial stability and a stable price environment ...
DATE: Sep 02, 2008
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In the recent gabfest for central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming the nabobs of monetary policy, and assorted talking heads, were at a loss to give much guidance on the direction in which we are heading. And, of course, there was much merriment amon...
DATE: Sep 02, 2008
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - Hardy Underwriting Bermuda Ltd., a Lloyd's of London insurer, said first-half profit rose 10 percent, helped by underwriting at its new 38Twenty syndicate.
Net income for the six months ended June 30 increased to £7.37 million ($...
DATE: Sep 02, 2008
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LONDON (Reuters) - Much is being made of a warning by British finance minister Alistair Darling over the economy this weekend but the reality is the characteristically candid Scot was not saying anything new.
The British media ran riot after Darling'...
DATE: Sep 02, 2008
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Cheryl Hayward-Chew has gone from dispensing for customers' medical needs to booking their holidays in what has proved to be both an interesting and varied career.
Having qualified as a pharmacist and dispensed medicine for 10 years, she then decided...
DATE: Sep 02, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Hurricane Gustav, the storm that hit Louisiana yesterday, will trigger insurance claims "significantly smaller than Katrina," said Robert Muir-Wood, head of research for Risk Management Solutions Inc.
The hurricane will cause "...
DATE: Sep 02, 2008
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