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DALLAS (Bloomberg) — Lawyers for workers suing BP Plc over injuries from a 2005 explosion at a Texas refinery stepped up efforts to take testimony from John Browne, who resigned May 1 as BP's chief executive officer.The attorneys asked a judge to fin...
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LONDON - The FTSE 100 of Britain's leading shares ended down 0.2 percent as miners fell and inflationary concerns pulled stocks further into the red ahead of data due later in the week.
The FTSE 100 closed at 6,555.5 points, down 10.2 or 0.16 percent...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street closed narrowly mixed after investors, uneasy about the government's upcoming inflation data, cashed in some of their gains from the market's months-long rally.Blue chip stocks managed a modest increase following DaimlerCh...
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NEW YORK(Bloomberg) — JetBlue Airways named John Ross as vice president of flight operations to direct the carrier's 1,700 pilots, replacing Scott Green.Ross, 59, who will take over his post immediately, had been vice president of system operations s...
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PartnerRe is to buy back up to five million of its common shares.
The company's board of directors have approved the stock repurchase, which reflects an increase of around 1.2 million shares on the buyback amount previously agreed by the company.
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HAVANA (AP) — The golden arches are nowhere to be found. There's not a single Starbucks or Wal-Mart, and no way to buy a Budweiser, a Corvette or a Dell.But even in Cuba, you can get a Coke.
Despite the US Trading With the Enemy Act, which governs Wa...
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Investigations into alleged bid-rigging and other "shrewd business tactics" have now cost Ace Ltd. $89 million in paybacks and fines across the US.
In the latest settlement Bermuda's biggest insurance and reinsurance company has agreed to pay $9m to ...
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Belco shares lost 55 cents on an otherwise quiet day for the Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange which ended 10.11 points (0.2 percent) lower at 5,131.5.
Belco dropped 0.55 percent after 500 shares were traded, settling at a closing price of $23.2...
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ATLANTA — Bankruptcy can be a wake-up call for airlines about the need to run their operations more efficiently, but it also can shine a light on a more basic challenge like making customers happy.UAL Corp.'s United Airlines and Delta Air Lines Inc.,...
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A subsidiary of Bermuda-domiciled White Mountains Insurance Group has reached an agreement with US technology company Storm Exchange aimed at providing ready access to ways of predicting the impact of weather on business and how those businesses can ...
DATE: May 15, 2007
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