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Recessionary pressures are expediting the adoption of alternative workplace strategies in the workplace. This was a major finding in a benchmarking study released by New Ways of Working (New WOW), a member organisation focused on alternative workplac...
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LONDON - The London stock market was closed for a public holiday, May Bank Holiday. On Friday the FTSE 100 closed at 5553.29 points, down 64.55 or 1.15 percent.
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EUROPE - European shares rose, as upbeat data US boosted hopes ...
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Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), a subsidiary of insurance broker Marsh Inc., today announced it has acquired The Bostonian Group Insurance Agency, Inc. and Bostonian Solutions, Inc., collectively "Bostonian Group," one of the largest regional insu...
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Increased spending and tighter revenue constraints are the biggest issues facing offshore financial centres (OFCs), including Bermuda, at the moment.
That was the finding of a panel of experts speaking about the state and future of the OFC industry a...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Investors sent stocks soaring yesterday after getting a boost of confidence from the latest economic reports and Warren Buffett's defence of Goldman Sachs.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 143 points for its biggest gain in two-a...
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Max Capital Group Ltd. yesterday reported an 18 percent fall in net earnings in the first quarter and a decrease in insurance sales.
The Bermuda-based re/insurer made net income of $36.4 million, or 63 cents per share, for the first quarter, compared...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Billionaire Warren Buffett praised Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO Lloyd Blankfein and said the bank shouldn't be blamed for losses suffered by clients who invested in mortgage bets at the centre of a fraud lawsuit filed by regula...
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Net income: $31.5 million compared to $35.7 million in 2009.
Gross premiums written: $400.2 million compared to $361.5 million in 2009.
Combined ratio: 97.6 percent compared to 80.4 percent in 2009.
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Nordic American Tanker Shipping Limited (the "Company") announced April 12, 2010 that preliminary contracts had been entered into with Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. ("Samsung"), for the construction of two suezmax tankers to be delivered in the ...
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A move by state agencies to crack down on inappropriate web surfing by state employees has erupted in the Vermont Statehouse as a debate over workplace privacy rights.
The issue is coming to a head in the nation's smallest state capital just a week a...
DATE: May 04, 2010
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