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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, has refused to sign off part of the Treasury's 2008/09 accounts due to questions about exposure to bank losses.
It is the first time for almost a decade that the Treasury's ac...
DATE: Jul 21, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Assured Guaranty Ltd. will provide a guarantee on three bonds issued by Financial Security Assurance Holdings Ltd., after it agreed to acquire FSA in November.
"These actions are another step in our integration process," said D...
DATE: Jul 21, 2009
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CAREER COACH: The "Job-Hunter's Survival Guide" is a slim paperback manual of little more than 100 pages, chock-a-block with bullet points and tips, wrapped in a road-sign shade of yellow.
The author, Richard Nelson Bolles, 82, wrote the best-selling...
DATE: Jul 21, 2009
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Many a successful trial lawyer can be said to have a flair for the dramatic. For Marc Daniels, the barrister and attorney behind the new Consigliare Law Chambers, the pull of law and theatre was almost equal when he was growing up.
"I used to want to...
DATE: Jul 21, 2009
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sony Corp.'s movie studio has bid $50 million to acquire the worldwide distribution rights to a film based on rehearsal footage for Michael Jackson's "This Is It" comeback concert series.
That's according to a person familiar with ...
DATE: Jul 21, 2009
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Bermuda-based Torus Insurance Holdings Ltd. has appointed Tim Mardon as the new president and chief underwriting officer of its reinsurance business Torus Re.
Mr. Mardon, who was previously with Citadel's reinsurance operations, will report directly ...
DATE: Jul 21, 2009
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Bermuda's international insurers have welcomed a bill introduced in the US Congress that would give homeowners incentives to "storm-proof" their homes.
The Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers (ABIR) was one of several insurance industry bo...
DATE: Jul 21, 2009
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NEW YORK (AP) — More plans to build homes, higher stock prices and fewer people filing first-time claims for jobless aid sent a private-sector forecast of US economic activity higher than expected in June.
It was the third straight monthly increase f...
DATE: Jul 21, 2009
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MIAMI (Reuters) - A Venezuelan investor has sued global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings Ltd over the collapse of the Stanford banking empire, saying he relied on assurances from Willis that Stanford was sound.
The lawsuit, filed as a class act...
DATE: Jul 21, 2009
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — The US economy is no longer collapsing and the path to recovery "will be a long one", said Lawrence Summers, director of the White House's National Economic Council.
"We've come a long way" from an economy "in freefall at the...
DATE: Jul 21, 2009
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