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HOUSTON (AP) — Hidden evidence. Prosecutorial misconduct. Flawed legal arguments. An unfair trial setting.
These are some of the claims attorneys for former Enron Corp. chief executive Jeffrey Skilling have made in appealing his 2006 convictions for ...
DATE: Apr 02, 2008
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) - Canadian stocks rose to the highest in more than two weeks, led by Toronto-Dominion Bank after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and UBS AG raised $19 billion in capital, indicating banks may withstand credit losses.
Barrick Gold Co...
DATE: Apr 02, 2008
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Two Bermudian women were promoted to the position of partner at Appleby the firm announced yesterday.
Both Janita Burke and Vanessa Lovell Schrum have worked their way up at the international firm for approximately a decade.
In total the firm promote...
DATE: Apr 02, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Blackstone Group LP, manager of the world's biggest leveraged buy-out fund, raised a record $10.9 billion to invest in property as the US housing slump pushes global real-estate prices lower. The fund, the New York-based firm's...
DATE: Apr 02, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Central European Media Enterprises Ltd., which operates television stations in six Eastern European countries, rose to its highest level in a month as KBC Groep NV's Czech broker, Patria Finance AS, upgraded its recommendation ...
DATE: Apr 02, 2008
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ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) — UBS AG's chairman abruptly resigned yesterday as the Swiss bank reported a first-quarter loss of $12.1 billion and said it would seek $15.1 billion in new capital.
UBS revealed more serious damage from exposure to the US su...
DATE: Apr 02, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - Microsoft Corp. has no plans raise its $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo! Inc., betting that staying put will give it more time to persuade the board to accept the bid, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Microsoft also has no immedi...
DATE: Apr 02, 2008
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Bermuda-based Teekay Tankers Ltd. has acquired two double-hull Suezmax-class oil tankers from Teekay Corp. for a total cost of $186.9 million.
Teekay expects to complete the acquisition of the 2002-built Ganges Spirit and the 2003-built Narmada Spiri...
DATE: Apr 02, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Stock hedge funds, unsure about which direction the markets would move, sat on a record amount of cash as the industry headed for its biggest quarterly decline in almost six years.
Equity managers, who oversee about one-third o...
DATE: Apr 02, 2008
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Talbot Underwriting announced gross written premiums of its Syndicate 1183 at Lloyd's were up three percent in 2007.
The speciality insurance group, which is a subsidiary of Bermuda-based Validus Holdings Ltd., announced Syndicate 1183 had written £3...
DATE: Apr 02, 2008
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