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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Legendary investor Warren Buffett appears this week before a commission searching for the causes of the 2008 financial crisis, to provide his assessment on the role a much-maligned credit rating industry played. Buffett, who runs...
DATE: May 31, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) — Europe has spooked stock investors. Will it spook shoppers, too?
Lately Americans have started spending a bit more, giving a lift to the economy and confounding doomsayers and even logic. After all, unemployment is still near double d...
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XL Capital boss Mike McGavick urged US lawmakers to remember what the Bermuda insurance market has done to support the US economy before considering law changes that could harm the Island.
Mr. McGavick made his comments to an audience dominated by in...
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NEW YORK, May 30 (Reuters) - In a bid to reduce outsourcing of US jobs, a Democratic senator said yesterday he will push legislation to make companies inform customers when their calls were being transferred outside the United States and charge compa...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — American International Group Inc., the bailed-out insurer, remains in negotiations to salvage the sale of its main Asia unit after Prudential Plc requested a lower price to win shareholders' approval.
Prudential asked that the ...
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LONDON (Reuters) - France admitted yesterday that keeping its top-notch credit rating would be "a stretch" without some tough budget decisions, following German hints that Berlin may resort to raising taxes to help bring down its deficit.
Eurozone tr...
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Big bond investors are laying bets that Canadian corporate debt will offer superior returns as the Bank of Canada abandons record-low interest rates and kicks off the first tightening cycle of the decade.
An improving economy, the...
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Local stocks made substantial gains last week, driven by rises in the Index's three most heavily weighted stocks.
Ascendant Group Ltd. surged 7.7 percent, BF&M Group skyrocketed 18.6 percent higher and Butterfield bank climbed 3.7 percent.
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DATE: May 31, 2010
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If you listen to the media you might believe that Greece is going to blow up, followed by Spain and eventually all of Europe is going to implode. "This is 2008 all over again. Maybe worse? There are so many issues!" say some pundits. There is little ...
DATE: May 31, 2010
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MILAN (AP) — How low can the euro go? Many economists think the 16-country currency is headed for a significant decline because of Europe's government debt crisis.
Some are even predicting that by next year the euro will sink to what's called parity ...
DATE: May 31, 2010
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