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...“Structural reasons as well as the interest rate environment are both contributors,” said Jill Carey Hall, equity and quant strategist at Bank of America....
...Taking out insurance can leave African states “better equipped” to manage climate change, says Mohamed Béavogui, director-general of African Risk Capacity, an insurer set up by the African Union to help...
...Oculus Rift goes on general sale in the first quarter of next year. Perhaps future Web Summits will move to a virtual reality venue we can all attend....
...As a governor of Florida, he ran a big state that alongside Ohio is one of the two critical swing states on the path to the Oval Office....
...It was the 96th successful launch in the history of United Launch Alliance, a little-known company that plays a critical role in the US’s national security....
...Mr deputy speaker, believing in our United Kingdom is not the same as believing that every decision should be taken here in London....
...In the United States, the pass-through from the unsecured overnight rate to secured rates – a crucial link in the transmission of the monetary policy – has weakened during the period of near zero rates....
...To prevent insurance companies taking this into account was silly....
...syndicate at Bank of America Merrill Lynch....
...While the general rule is that you can sue where the defendant is domiciled, there might also be the option of proceeding in the place of the relevant branch or agency involved, or where the service was...
...1951 Discovering Mr Graham is on the board of Geico, the insurers, Mr Buffett travels to Washington and finds a vice-president in the office....
...Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States By Andrew Coe Oxford University Press, £15.99 The story of America’s love-hate relationship with Chinese food, from the first American...
...“He could see where the insurance industry was going before anybody else.” But AIG’s development as a loose collection of companies unified only by the central figure of Mr Greenberg had drawbacks....
...But it was insurance he chose and it was in insurance that he made his fortune. After a spell with an insurance company owned by C.H....
...Custodian banks, normally seen as among the safest banking stocks, suffered, with State Street losing 27 per cent to $44 and Bank of New York Mellon down 27.2 per cent at $26.50....
...On Friday, Mr Buffett’s satisfaction with the performance of his insurance units, which include Geico, the car insurer, and General Re, a reinsurance company, was reinforced as the “Sage of Omaha” launched...
...Should we start worrying about bans and insurance companies with respect to this re-pricing?...
...Believers always said the underlying portfolio of businesses – centred on insurers such as GEICO and General Re but wide ranging – was worth more than the share price implied....
...But as the French Schulte family, profiled here, says, the welfare state and rigid employment laws do not protect them from higher property prices, which, as in the UK, make middle-class life increasingly...
...According to Lipton, the refugees were processed by Alfred Boch, the company’s general manager and vice-president....
...Greenberg represented C.V. Starr & Co. Role reversal After years of serving as a top consultant to the world’s largest media groups, Michael Wolf is joining one....
...Donald Trump was on hand to unveil Cadillac's new XLR-V model, with 440 horsepower. By next year, General Motors will have seven convertibles in its product line-up....
...An annual study of Germans’ fears, conducted by the R+V insurance group since 1991, shows falling purchasing power, economic weakness and unemployment topping their concerns this year, with terrorism in...
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