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TORONTO (Reuters) — The Toronto Stock Exchange’s main index extended robust gains for a second straight session yesterday, as investors appeared determined to end 2006 on a positive note.Amid a broad-based rally, the S&P/TSX composite index gained 56...
DATE: Dec 29, 2006
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What can we expect in the way of technological advances in the coming year? It is certainly still a Microsoft world for the business and home desk computer user. I hope you managed to hold off on buying a new computer with a Microsoft operating syste...
DATE: Dec 29, 2006
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — If Apple’s iPod is the nicely tuned Porsche of portable media players and Microsoft’s Zune is the Jetta, then a new Wi-Fi-enabled unit from Archos is the Hummer, a brutish performer with all the tools to navigate the rugged terra...
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Nasdaq Stock Market said yesterday it will close next Tuesday as part of a national day of mourning to mark the funeral of President Gerald R. Ford. And the New York Stock Exchange may close too.It was expected that the stock exch...
DATE: Dec 29, 2006
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s natural gas monopoly has warned Belarus not to siphon gas from the main pipeline leading across its territory to Europe if it goes ahead with a threatened supply cut-off on New Year’s Day.The European Union and Germany, meanwhi...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Insurers sued for refusing to pay claims for homes damaged by floods after Hurricane Katrina may be in settlement talks with Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood.Hood sued State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., the larges...
DATE: Dec 29, 2006
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The owners of the Horizons and Cottages resort and the Coral Beach and Tennis Club have announced plans to offer fractional ownership of proposed new luxury cottages.
Rumours have been rife that the Wardman family has been planning to sell off the tw...
DATE: Dec 29, 2006
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Bermuda-based Paris Re Holdings Ltd. has completed the purchase of AXA Re, the reinsurance arm of France?s AXA Group.
Paris Re is headed by Hans-Peter Gerhardt, formerly chief executive officer of AXA Re and AXA retains a 3.4 percent stake in the Ham...
DATE: Dec 29, 2006
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HOUSTON (Dow Jones/AP) — HCC Insurance Holdings Inc. yesterday said it has recorded a charge of $26.6 million to correct for the accounting of employee stock options in 1997 through 2005 after an independent review.The Houston-based company said the ...
DATE: Dec 29, 2006
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) ? US property casualty insurers used the lowest proportion of premiums for expenses and claims in two decades after losses plunged last quarter because of calmer weather.
Insurers used 90.6 cents of every $1 in premiums collected...
DATE: Dec 29, 2006
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