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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Credit Suisse Group AG has been sued by property owners in four luxury ski and golf resorts, saying the Swiss bank concocted a loan scheme to defraud them and ultimately take over the properties.
The lawsuit filed on Sunday in fe...
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PARIS (Reuters) – Most of some 3,000 suspected French tax cheats with Swiss bank accounts have contacted authorities to legalise their financial holdings, French Budget Minister Eric Woerth said on Sunday.
Switzerland protested strongly about the use...
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AP: 2009 bankruptcies total 1.4 million, up 32 pct
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- U.S. consumers and businesses are filing for bankruptcy at a pace that made 2009 the seventh-worst year on record, with more than 1.4 million petitions submitted.
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In the first of a two-part series, Alex Wright looks at the hopes and aspirations of Bermuda’s international business leaders for 2010, including the impact of the global economic crisis and the following recovery, immigration issues and the critical...
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Total latest to make a play for US natural gas
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The race for the country's natural gas riches grew more crowded Monday with the announcement that France's Total SA would spe...
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MIAMI (Reuters) – A US judge yesterday upheld the prison sentence of a key informant in the tax fraud case against Swiss bank UBS AG and ordered him to start serving his 40-month term as scheduled this Friday.
The ruling by Fort Lauderdale Federal Ju...
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LONDON (Reuters) – The head of Britain's business regulator has hit out at Ryanair, saying in a newspaper interview it may act over the way the budget Irish airline almost taunts passengers with its payment system.
John Fingleton, chief executive of ...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) – Global reinsurance prices dropped six percent for policies renewed on January 1 after catastrophe damage fell and capital markets improved, Marsh & McLennan Cos. said.
"The overall level of catastrophe losses activity in the wo...
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NEW YORK, Jan 04, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Reinsurance rates across most lines of property catastrophe business declined at the January 1, 2010 renewal, according to a briefing released today by Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC. The report, Rates Retreat ...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - XL Capital Ltd., the Bermuda-based insurer, led the Standard & Poor's 500 Index this year with an almost fivefold advance as CEO Michael McGavick's cost-saving and asset moves led to a profit return.
XL climbed $14.71 to $18.41...
DATE: Jan 04, 2010
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