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LONDON (Bloomberg) - The Bank of England, struggling to fend off an economic slowdown, may instead be giving itself a new inflation headache.
The Monetary Policy Committee cut its key interest rate by a quarter point to 5.5 percent on Wednesday, citi...
DATE: Dec 07, 2007
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - MBIA, the largest bond insurer in the world, said yesteray it is looking at ways to shore up its capital base, a day after rating agency Moody's Investors Service said the insurer was "somewhat likely" to require additional capit...
DATE: Dec 07, 2007
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Ironshore has been knocked back in its attempts to get a foothold in the Lloyd's of London marketplace.
That is according to The Insurance Insider publication, which reported this month that Lloyd's insurer Heritage Underwriting Agency rebuffed an ap...
DATE: Dec 07, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street rallied once again yesterday as investors bet that companies hurt by the housing crisis will benefit from a government plan to help financially stretched homeowners and from another interest rate cut.
The Dow Jones industr...
DATE: Dec 07, 2007
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SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing will decide on a plan to replace its popular 737 aircraft by 2012 at the latest, a spokeswoman told The Associated Press yesterday.
Last year, the company started seriously considering a successor for the 737, for which Boeing h...
DATE: Dec 07, 2007
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The Bermuda Stock Exchange has been designated as a recognised stock exchange for tax purposes by the Board of the UK's HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
The designation extends to the entire Exchange and as such securities listed will meet the HMRC int...
DATE: Dec 07, 2007
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LONDON (Reuters) - Flood prevention strategies need a complete overhaul to better protect Britain's infrastructure, a government report said yesterday.
Road and rail networks, power stations, water plants and other services such as police stations ar...
DATE: Dec 07, 2007
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IRVINE (Business wire) — Intelsat, the world's leading provider of commercial satellite services, and On Call Communications yesterday announced that they have joined forces, and in coordination with AT&T, have donated desperately needed emergency co...
DATE: Dec 07, 2007
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index finished strongly higher yesterday, as robust resource issues benefited from higher commodity prices and led a broad afternoon rally.
The materials sector was helped by a rally in gold price...
DATE: Dec 07, 2007
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US President George W. Bush announced a plan yesterday afternoon aimed at slowing a wave of home loan foreclosures that has threatened to knock the US economy into recession and rattled investors worldwide.
Bush said the plan, ...
DATE: Dec 07, 2007
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