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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.Net income for the six mo...
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OneBeacon Insurance Group Ltd. could raise $600 million when its shares are floated on the New York Stock Exchange today.
Bermuda-based White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. said last night it had priced the 24 million shares its subsidiary is offeri...
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LONDON (AP) — A judge yesterday dismissed a class-action lawsuit that Lloyd’s of London investors filed against the British government for big financial losses they suffered during the 1980s and 1990s.More than 1,000 underwriting “Names” had sought t...
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Quanta Capital Holdings Ltd., which placed all but its Lloyd’s of London business into runoff last year, reported a net profit of $3 million in the third quarter of 2006 compared to a loss of $59 million in the same period in 2005.
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Allied World Assurance Co. beat analysts’ expectations last night when it swung to a third-quarter profit of about $114 million, or $1.89 a share, from a year-earlier loss of $283.4 million, or $5.65 a share.
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Allied World Assurance Co. beat analysts? expectations last night when it swung to a third-quarter profit of about $114 million, or $1.89 a share, from a year-earlier loss of $283.4 million, or $5.65 a share.
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Aspen Holdings Ltd. yesterday said it expects to write about $1.9 billion gross written premiums in the 2007 financial year, but warned rates will decline in some of its product lines.
Aspen chief executive officer Chris O?Kane also said: ?We are als...
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PARIS (Bloomberg) ? Scor SA, the largest French reinsurer, said nine-month profit almost doubled on property and casualty reinsurance sales and growth in Asia and Europe.
Net income increased 87 percent to 155 million euros ($198 million) from 83 mil...
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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 f...
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PARIS (Bloomberg) — Shares of Scottish Re Group Ltd., a Bermuda-based reinsurer, slumped 15 percent after the head of French reinsurer Scor SA said it didn’t bid to buy the company, which is for sale.Scor chief executive officer Denis Kessler made th...
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