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...It’s in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, outside the headquarters of an insurance company located alongside an interstate highway. This is a pittance, globally speaking....
...The Florida-based company, which also owns a small portfolio of retail property, has hired bankers and is expecting to receive initial bids in the next few weeks, according to people familiar with the matter...
...Wells agreed to buy BNP Paribas’ North American energy business last week, including $9.5bn of loans to oil and gas companies....
...Last month, Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, told a gathering of European regulators that he regarded large insurance companies and pension funds as systemically important institutions...
...This is the 34th failure of an FDIC-insured institution this year, and the third in Florida, the regulator said....
...Even so, Mr Donald has extended the service to 2012, involving more patients and support for a wider range of conditions....
...The massive losses sustained by the insurance industry in Andrew's aftermath threatened the solvency of some casualty underwriters and led to Florida's establishment of a state-sponsored catastrophe fund...
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