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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) —Federal prosecutors in New York yesterday added a new charge to a pending criminal indictment against former Refco Inc. chief executive officer Phillip Bennett, accusing him of lying to the company’s auditors.Bennett already fac...
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks fell for a third day, the longest losing streak in seven weeks, as commodity producers including Teck Cominco Ltd. and Goldcorp Inc. declined with prices of most industrial metals and bullion.
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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP) — He might be the most active philanthropist you’ve never heard of: a retired technology entrepreneur putting his stamp on science research centres at the world’s top universities and sponsoring what he hopes will be 21s...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) — The former head of sales at CA Inc. was sentenced to seven years in prison yesterday for participating in a $2.2 billion accounting scandal at the software company.Stephen Richards, 41, pleaded guilty to conspiracy, securities fr...
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Hannover Re is not bidding for troubled Bermuda reinsurer Scottish Re “for the time being”, Germany’s third largest reinsurer said yesterday.
During a conference call with analysts after releasing its results, Hannover Re chief financial officer Elke...
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Glacier Reinsurance A.G. has launched a primary insurer, Glacier Insurance A.G. to write marine and energy, property and casualty, aviation, space and war and terrorism business.
Glacier Insurance is based in Liechtenstein and is licensed by the coun...
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BOSTON (Bloomberg) — Tyco International Ltd. shareholder Relational Investors LLC, co-founded by investor activist Ralph Whitworth, sold its 11.1 million-share stake in the conglomerate, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commi...
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Bermuda Commercial Bank said yesterday it expects to announce a merger or sale of the bank within the next two months.
BCB, which has been drawn into controversy after it was revealed that 47 percent shareholder First Curacao International Bank was b...
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DUBLIN (Reuters) — Of the 3,500 Dublin homes currently for sale on property website www.daft.ie, just 600 are below the 317,500 euro ($408,300) level at which property tax kicks in for first-time buyers.That’s less than 20 percent of the Irish capita...
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Glacier Reinsurance A.G. has launched a primary insurer, Glacier Insurance A.G. to write marine and energy, property and casualty, aviation, space and war and terrorism business.
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