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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks notched a third week of gains, as raw-materials producers including Goldcorp Inc. and LionOre Mining International Ltd. extended a rally alongside prices of gold and nickel.The market was little changed as indust...
DATE: Nov 25, 2006
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He is poised as if in flight, the musculature aesthetically and fully exposed and straining, arms thrust forward, one leg mid-stride, the other flung far higher as if in a final kick to the finish of a long run. But this is not a photo finish of a fa...
DATE: Nov 25, 2006
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Ratings agency A.M. Best Co. yesterday affirmed the financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating of ?a-? of Aspen Insurance Limited (AIL) (Bermuda) and said the outlook for both ratings remains stable.
Best said AIL?s risk...
DATE: Nov 24, 2006
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The key to keeping intellectually sharp as we age may not be mental gymnastics, as commonly recommended, but real gymnastics.
According to a new study, the brain’s long, slow decline may not be inevitable. For the first time, scientists have found so...
DATE: Nov 24, 2006
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Ratings agency A.M. Best Co. yesterday affirmed the financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating of “a-” of Aspen Insurance Limited (AIL) (Bermuda) and said the outlook for both ratings remains stable.
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DATE: Nov 24, 2006
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OTTAWA (Reuters) — Canada will make it easier for employers in the booming western provinces of Alberta and British Columbia to hire temporary foreign workers in 170 different fields, Ottawa announced last week.The government said it would ease the r...
DATE: Nov 24, 2006
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Mitchell Caplan, E Trade Financial Corp.’s chief executive officer, is reluctant to explain how his company came to own 1 million shares of BoysToys.Com Inc., a San Francisco strip-club operator that went bankrupt in 2001.“I’m ...
DATE: Nov 24, 2006
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — The cost of renting an office in London’s West End district climbed 17 percent in the past 12 months, cementing the area’s position as the world’s most expensive location for companies, a study by CB Richard Ellis Inc. showed.The...
DATE: Nov 24, 2006
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Top Bermuda insurance executive John Charman has been given permission to take his appeal against a ?48 million ($94 million) divorce settlement to Britain?s Court of Appeal.
The 54-year-old Axis Capital Holdings Ltd. chief executive was ordered in J...
DATE: Nov 24, 2006
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SEOUL, South Korea — Lone Star Funds, a Dallas-based private-equity firm, made big money in South Korea by investing billions of dollars in struggling businesses and other assets in the aftermath of the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis.Now it’s in big ...
DATE: Nov 24, 2006
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