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Everest Re Group Ltd.'s subsidiary Everest Reinsurance Co. has been approved as an admitted property and casualty reinsurer in Brazil.
The approval by the Brazilian insurance regulator, SUSEP (Superintendencia de Seguros Privados) allows Everest to e...
DATE: Dec 23, 2008
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LONDON (AP) — House prices in Britain will fall ten percent next year as banks rein in mortgage lending and buyers are deterred by the economic slowdown, a leading property researcher forecast yesterday.
Hometrack acknowledged that because of the mar...
DATE: Dec 23, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) — How to get to "Sesame Street" is child's play, as the chirpy theme song has assured kids daily for 39 years.
But first it had to be created. In the new book "Street Gang: The Complete History of 'Sesame Street,"' journalist Michael Da...
DATE: Dec 23, 2008
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) - Canadian stocks fell, sending the main index to its biggest drop in three weeks, as energy producers slid along with oil prices.
Suncor Energy Inc. fell 11 percent as crude slid on speculation that the global recession will curt...
DATE: Dec 23, 2008
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LONDON (AP) — Two rate-setting members of the Bank of England indicated yesterday they favour deeper rate cuts to help the economy through the looming recession, causing a further fall in the value of the pound.
The Bank of England's deputy head, who...
DATE: Dec 23, 2008
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A group of primary school students were reportedly pulled off a bus and forced to continue their journey on foot after all the students on the bus were being rowdy.
The matter was brought to The Royal Gazette by way of a letter to the editor. The con...
DATE: Dec 23, 2008
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Retailers received some early Christmas cheer with a successful week's trading in the run up to the festive season, despite the current economic crisis and credit crunch hitting many customers' pockets hard.*
Kristi Grayston, chairman of the Retail D...
DATE: Dec 23, 2008
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An international company is suing the Bank of Bermuda for $262,000 — the sum which it claims the bank, by failing to make basic checks, allowed fraudsters to withdraw from its account — plus damages.
Goran Management Ltd., a Bermuda-based insurance p...
DATE: Dec 23, 2008
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DEAR DR. GOTT: I wrote to you on June 13, 2008 about my atrial fibrillation. I am scheduled to have an ablation in September. My concern is the pulsating in my head, which is causing lightheadedness. Is this caused by the heart problem? Will the abla...
DATE: Dec 23, 2008
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If there is one game you don't want to play with Steven R. McPhee it is counting the number of bottles of beer on the wall.
Mr. McPhee has a collection of over 2,000 antique bottles, most of which he has found himself while diving.
He has shared his ...
DATE: Dec 23, 2008
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