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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street rose for a third straight session yesterday, with the Dow Jones industrials reaching another record close as investors grew more confident that a huge victory by Democrats in congressional elections would result in gridloc...
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Annuity and Life Re (Holdings), Ltd. yesterday reported a net loss of $205,690 or one cent a share for the third quarter of 2006 compared to a net loss of $2.62 million or 11 cents a share for the same period in 2005.
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BOSTON (AP) — Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said yesterday he expects newly energised congressional Democrats to ease some accounting requirements of a landmark 2002 anti-fraud law that much of corporate America has criticized as ove...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) — UBS AG, the world’s biggest money manager for wealthy people, said yesterday that Mark Sutton, chairman and chief executive of UBS Americas, will step down at year-end after just 18 months on the job.Robert Wolf, the chief operat...
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) —- Representative Charles Rangel’s tenure as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee will be shaped by the legacies of two predecessors: Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski and retiring California Republican Bill Thomas.R...
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ATHENS (Bloomberg) ? Bermuda-based Tsakos Energy Navigation announced a doubling of third-quarter profit and said full-year earnings will rise to a record after the company expanded its oil-tanker fleet and increased charges to customers.
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — UK insurer Standard Life Plc said third-quarter sales rose 41 percent, driven by pensions in its home market. The shares fell after the company said it will review provisions for pension-policy cancellations.New business rose to ...
DATE: Nov 09, 2006
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LONDON (Bloomberg) ? Cable & Wireless Plc, the UK's second-biggest phone company, said fiscal first-half profit fell 65 percent on costs to cut jobs. The stock rose as much as 5.6 percent as earnings beat analysts' estimates.
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DATE: Nov 09, 2006
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PXRE Group Ltd. yesterday said its net income before paying convertible preferred share dividends was $4.5 million in the third quarter of 2006 compared to a net loss of $317.3 million in the same period in 2005.
PXRE, which ran into financial diffic...
DATE: Nov 09, 2006
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MUNICH (Bloomberg) — Munich Re shares were downgraded by JPMorgan Chase & Co., Merck Finck & Co. and Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale, citing concern over future growth.The world’s second-largest reinsurer yesterday raised its full-year profit fo...
DATE: Nov 09, 2006
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