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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks shot higher Wednesday after the Federal Reserve answered two of Wall Street’s major concerns, indicating the economy remains healthy and that inflation pressures are easing. The Dow Jones industrials climbed nearly 100 points t...
DATE: Feb 01, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks finished moderately higher in an uneven session yesterday as optimism about the economy helped investors overcome some of their uneasiness about the Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rates.The energy sector rose on a 5 per...
DATE: Jan 31, 2007
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ACE Ltd. last night announced 2006 profits of $2.3 billion and fourth-quarter results which far outstripped experts’ expectations.
Year on year, the business insurer’s fourth-quarter net income nearly tripled to $665 million, or $1.99 per share, comp...
DATE: Jan 31, 2007
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I finally loaded up a review copy of Office 2007 on my home computer this weekend and spent the next few days getting oriented to the new interface Microsoft has created for its suite of programs.You need the time, as this tabbed interface is regroup...
DATE: Jan 31, 2007
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The world’s second-biggest insurance broker Aon has announced that it had completed the acquisition of Footman James, a broker that specialises in providing cover for vintage vehicles.
Aon, which last week announced its new Aon Global Ltd. unit would...
DATE: Jan 31, 2007
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A gap in the market has been filled with the opening of the first steakhouse in the Hamilton.
Previously the city was probably the only one in the Western Hemisphere with a sizeable business district not to have such an eatery.
But not any longer, af...
DATE: Jan 31, 2007
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GERMANY (Bloomberg) Munich Re, the world’s second-biggest reinsurer, said premiums from property and casualty contracts renewed in January fell by three percent following an almost complete absence of costly natural disasters in 2006.Munich Re renew...
DATE: Jan 31, 2007
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CHICAGO (AP) — Billionaire investor Carl C. Icahn told Motorola Inc. he hopes to be elected to one of 13 seats on the cell phone maker’s board of directors, company officials said yesterday. Motorola shares rose more than 6 percent in late morning tr...
DATE: Jan 31, 2007
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The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange inched closer to the 5,000-point mark on the back of a surge in the value of Bermuda Container Line Ltd. (BCL) shares.
BCL, which last week announced a 30 percent rise in net earnings, gained 24.6 percent, o...
DATE: Jan 31, 2007
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — US Airways Group Inc. and JetBlue Airways Corp. swung to fourth-quarter profits after losses a year earlier as they raised fares and still kept planes full.US Airways, which is pursuing a hostile bid for bankrupt Delta Air Li...
DATE: Jan 31, 2007
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