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NEW YORK (AP) — Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling’s nearly quarter-century prison sentence this week should remind corporate bosses everywhere of how risky it can be to break the law.The timing couldn’t be more perfect. In recent months, dozens of CE...
DATE: Oct 28, 2006
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LONDON (AFX) — Berkshire Hathaway-owned National Indemnity Co’s assumption of Equitas’ liabilities in a $7 billion reinsurance deal last week could trigger a wave of mergers and acquisitions within the Lloyd’s of London insurance market, credit ratin...
DATE: Oct 27, 2006
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the world’s two biggest oil companies, posted higher third-quarter earnings than analysts expected after crude prices soared to a record and production increased.At Irving, Texas-bas...
DATE: Oct 27, 2006
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Troubled Bermuda-based insurer Quanta Capital Holdings Ltd. has formalised an agreement with Chaucer Holdings Plc to secure the future of its Lloyd's of London business.
Quanta placed all of its non-Lloyd's business into runoff in May this year.
In J...
DATE: Oct 27, 2006
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LONDON (AFX) ? Berkshire Hathaway-owned National Indemnity Co?s assumption of Equitas? liabilities in a $7 billion reinsurance deal last week could trigger a wave of mergers and acquisitions within the Lloyd?s of London insurance market, credit ratin...
DATE: Oct 27, 2006
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Looking to set up a new private- equity or hedge fund? Wondering where to stage an initial share sale? Or just looking around for a headquarters for your company?Until recently, there would have been only two cities on your list....
DATE: Oct 27, 2006
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NEW YORK (Reuters) — US health insurer Aetna Inc. yesterday said quarterly profit rose 28 percent on moderating medical costs and higher enrolment, beating Wall Street’s projections and pushing shares sharply higher.The third-quarter results from the...
DATE: Oct 27, 2006
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BEIJING (Reuters) — When the world’s largest share listing takes place today, investors will be betting more on the China growth dream than on the credentials of Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, the country’s largest bank.With more customers th...
DATE: Oct 27, 2006
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — The US Securities and Exchange Commission, criticized by Congress for its handling of a trading probe that entangled Morgan Stanley chief executive officer John Mack, faces a broad review by government auditors of its managem...
DATE: Oct 27, 2006
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — US Airways Group Inc. and AirTran Holdings Inc., the parent of AirTran Airways, posted third-quarter net losses as fuel expenses rose and new airport-security rules damped travel demand.The loss at US Airways, the seventh-large...
DATE: Oct 27, 2006
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