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NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks recovered from early losses and closed modestly higher yesterday after President Barack Obama's speech on financial reform contained no unpleasant surprises.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose about nine points after being d...
DATE: Apr 23, 2010
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Fabrice Tourre, the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker at the centre of fraud allegations against the firm, has agreed to testify and may defend his actions at a Senate hearing next week, said two people briefed on the plan.
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DATE: Apr 22, 2010
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GENEVA (AP) - For those with deep pockets, there was one way to beat the ash cloud hovering over Europe: hire a private jet.
Seizing their chance, operators - who had been suffering from a slump in demand due to the global economic crisis - tried to ...
DATE: Apr 22, 2010
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WASHINGTON, April 21 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc aggressively increased political campaign donations and lobby spending in Congress in early 2010, as the financial reform debate gathered momentum, according to newly released official document...
DATE: Apr 22, 2010
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HOUSTON (AP) — Jailed Texas financier Allen Stanford and three executives — all facing charges of bilking investors out of $7 billion as part of a massive Ponzi scheme — will have to wait another five months before learning if they will have to foot ...
DATE: Apr 22, 2010
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Doug Baker, FCA, Chair of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants was in Bermuda last week to congratulate Bermuda's newest C.A.'s, C.PA's and A.C.A at the annual convocation.
John Wight C.A, Chair of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of...
DATE: Apr 22, 2010
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Bermuda-based OneBeacon Insurance Group Ltd. estimates that its first-quarter combined ratio will be 112 percent, including approximately $44 million, or 10 points, of mainly US-based pretax catastrophe losses.
Combined ratio indicates the percentage...
DATE: Apr 22, 2010
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DALLAS (AP) — The parent of American Airlines posted a huge first-quarter loss — a half-billion dollars, more than it lost during the recession a year ago — and dragged other airline stocks down with it yesterday.
American's results showed that airli...
DATE: Apr 22, 2010
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US regulators charged a Miami Beach, Florida, philanthropist with fraud for allegedly running a $900 million Ponzi scheme, the Securities and Exchange Commission said yesterday.
Nevin Shapiro, a major donor to the University of...
DATE: Apr 22, 2010
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Net income: $15.4 million compared to $84.9 million
Net premiums earned: $220.2 million compared to $247.8 million in 2009
Combined ratio: 98.7 percent compared to 80.1 percent in 2009
DATE: Apr 22, 2010
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