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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — A closely held firm run by Maurice (Hank) Greenberg, former chief executive officer of American International Group Inc., has created a new company that will sell health and accident insurance on behalf of Chubb Corp.The new un...
DATE: Mar 19, 2007
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FRANKFURT (Bloomberg) — Allianz SE, Europe's biggest insurer, lowered its stake to below five percent in Munich Re, the world's second-biggest reinsurer.Munich-based Allianz informed Munich Re that its holding fell below the threshold on March 9, and...
DATE: Mar 19, 2007
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. scrapped plans to open its own bank, ending a two-year controversy that roiled financial-services companies that feared direct competition from the world’s largest retailer.Wal-Mart said today it notified...
DATE: Mar 19, 2007
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) Canadian stocks fell on concern a slowing US economy may sap demand for Canadian exports and hit commodity producers’ profits. Suncor Energy and Teck Cominco paced declines as prices for crude oil dropped.The Standard & Poor’s/TS...
DATE: Mar 17, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street slumped after another reading on inflation deflated hopes the Federal Reserve will start moving toward an interest rate cut when it meets next week. The major indexes suffered moderate losses for the week.The inflation rea...
DATE: Mar 17, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — In 1995, the Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in economics to Robert Lucas, calling him “the economist who has had the greatest influence on macroeconomic research since 1970.”Lucas’s specific contribution wa...
DATE: Mar 17, 2007
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The Secret: Good Health Can Save you Money; Bad Health Won’t and may ultimately define your future lifestyle.
Eat your fruits and vegetables! Isn’t that what our mothers always said! Whether caused by our 21st century processed foods, sedentary ways,...
DATE: Mar 17, 2007
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For a second consecutive day the Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange remained unmoved at 4,997.38 with only 798 shares being traded on a light day of activity for the market.
Shares in three stocks were exchanged on Friday, with 500 shares of West...
DATE: Mar 17, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — The employment outlook isn’t generating nearly as many headlines as the subprime mortgage mess, but maybe it should. That’s because the job market is in pretty good shape, offering support to the economy when other factors are surely ...
DATE: Mar 17, 2007
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The discussion in these pages during the past few weeks on reverse mortgages has taught me a great deal about human nature. The underlying subject, of course, is inheritance. Despite having very firm views on the subject, I have concluded that there ...
DATE: Mar 17, 2007
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