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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Robert Benmosche told employees he wants to cut in half the fees paid to Wall Street banks to take the insurer's units public.
AIG, which is selling businesses and plann...
DATE: Sep 03, 2009
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EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — Authorities yesterday gave real estate tycoon Donald Trump permission to expand the site of a luxury golf resort he is building on a stretch of Scottish coast despite fierce opposition from local residents.
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DATE: Sep 03, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based business insurer XL Capital Ltd. and US insurer Allstate Corp. may report the strongest growth in book value among property and casualty insurers for the third quarter as investments gain ground, Barclays Plc said...
DATE: Sep 03, 2009
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LONDON (Reuters) - Starbucks , the world's biggest coffee chain, is serving more Britons despite a recession which has seen consumers cut back on discretionary spending, the head of its UK and Irish business told Reuters.
"I think where we are now is...
DATE: Sep 03, 2009
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LOS ANGELES (Bloomberg) — Las Vegas Sands Corp. is selling as much as $600 million in bonds that automatically convert into shares of its Macau business when the unit is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
The bond sale will help the firm attain ...
DATE: Sep 03, 2009
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The Argus Group has signed a deal to take on around 500 health insurance clients of the British American Insurance Company (BAICO).
Efforts are also underway to find a solution for the approximately 4,000 life insurance policyholders of British Ameri...
DATE: Sep 02, 2009
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Jonathan Kent
Recently CNN did a feature, published as an article on the Internet, on the 12 annoying types of Facebookers. Like many others I found this article funny, because I could identify each type with almost everyone in my Facebook orb.
Wait. I could ident...
DATE: Sep 02, 2009
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LONDON (Reuters) - Climate protesters superglued themselves together inside the London headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland yesterday to demonstrate about what they said was the bank's investment in fossil fuels.
The protesters were from a Clim...
DATE: Sep 02, 2009
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LONDON (Reuters) - Net lending to Britons in July fell at its sharpest pace since records began in 1993, even as the number of mortgages approved rose to its highest since April 2008, Bank of England figures showed yesterday.
The figures suggest that...
DATE: Sep 02, 2009
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The impact of the global economic crisis on property and casualty insurance and reinsurance was the focus for a seminar held at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess yesterday.
The meeting, which was hosted by Matson, Driscoll and Damico, looked at how the ...
DATE: Sep 02, 2009
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