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NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street advanced sharply yesterday, with solid preliminary results from IBM encouraging investors to go back into the stock market after last week's rout.
International Business Machines Corp., one of the 30 Dow Jones industrials,...
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NEW YORK (AP) - US property and casualty insurers expect to pay a total of $6.5 billion in claims covering natural disasters in 2007, a year that cost comparatively less as the US avoided major damage from a hurricane, an industry group reported yest...
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LONDON (Reuters) - Eleven mortgage lenders have reduced the amount of money they will lend to home-buyers, as expectations of a property price slowdown grow.
The 11 have cut their maximum loan-to-value (LTV) on at least some products since the start ...
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Government has still not released the latest IMF report - two weeks after it was supposed to be released.
The Ministry of Finance previously said the report would be available at the end of December 2007.
But now that has been put on hold and no publ...
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - Dominion Petroleum Ltd., a Bermuda-based explorer drilling for oil in Africa, began a 2D-seismic survey on part of its production sharing agreement areas in Tanzania.
Upstream Petroleum Services Ltd. is conducting the geological ...
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ALBANY, New York (AP) - MySpace reached an agreement with legal authorities in 49 states on changing its social networking website to help prevent sexual predators and others from misusing it, state officials said yesterday.
Several states' attorneys...
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Reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter & Company LLC yesterday announced that it will be opening an office in Prague on March 1, to further develop business and serve clients based or conducting business in the Czech and Slovak Republics.
The new office wi...
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LONDON (AP) — Shares in Northern Rock PLC slumped more than four percent yesterday amid increasing speculation that the troubled mortgage lender will be nationalised, rather than sold off to a private investor.
Stepping up pressure on Northern Rock a...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - IBM reported a better-than-expected 24 percent rise in preliminary quarterly earnings yesterday on strong sales in overseas markets, driving its shares up six percent and spurring a broader tech rally.
The surprise report ahead o...
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LAGOS, Nigeria (Bloomberg) - Continental Reinsurance plc., a Nigerian company that underwrites risks for insurers, said nine-month profit more than doubled.
Net income rose to 657.8 million naira ($5.6 million) in the nine months through September 30...
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