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BADEN-BADEN (Bloomberg) — Hannover Re, Germany's second- biggest reinsurer, expects prices for German reinsurance contracts renewed in January to remain stable as primary insurers seek to protect capital hurt by the financial crisis.
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DATE: Oct 27, 2009
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LONDON (Reuters) - British retail banks should stop paying big cash bonuses and use the money instead to support new lending and contribute to an economic recovery, the opposition Conservatives' finance spokesman George Osborne said yesterday.
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DATE: Oct 27, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp. paid top executives an average of $18.2 million each last year as the banks accepted $90 billion of bailout funds, records from Treasury Department paymaster Kenneth Feinberg show.
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DATE: Oct 26, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — The dollar weakened to $1.50 per euro for the first time in 14 months as more evidence of a recovery in the global economy from recession increased demand for higher-yielding assets.
The Canadian dollar fell against most of its...
DATE: Oct 26, 2009
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Double-digit falls in the share prices of Butterfield Bank and Bermuda Aviation Services Ltd. (BAS) saw the Bermuda Stock Exchange suffer a six percent fall this week.
The bank plunged 75 cents, or 15.6 percent, to $4.05 - its lowest price since earl...
DATE: Oct 26, 2009
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Five percent of Bermuda residents polled have lost their job over the past year and are still unemployed, according to a sample survey by Research.bm.
The startling statistic, which was recorded from a study of 400 people aged 18 or over during the t...
DATE: Oct 26, 2009
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Strong gold prices and tame cost inflation should lead to robust third-quarter results from Canadian gold producers, but investor focus will likely be on updates on new mines and fresh details on the unwinding of Barrick Gold's he...
DATE: Oct 26, 2009
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock bulls may hit the pause button again this week if a wave of earnings due from marquee names such as Exxon Mobil and a slew of economic data offer no new incentives to extend Wall Street's seven-month rally.
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DATE: Oct 26, 2009
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Re/insurers are almost 100 percent compliant with a self-imposed contract certainty code of practice, according to results released by the Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers (ABIR).
The code (published on the ABIR website at www.abir.bm),...
DATE: Oct 26, 2009
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For those who doubted the power of a flood of liquidity — provided by the world's central banks — to turn around depressed asset markets, the evidence is now plain for all to see. Over the past six months there has been a tremendous surge in many ass...
DATE: Oct 26, 2009
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