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...Munich Re’s main insurance business Ergo provided about €700mn in loans, while Germany’s fourth largest insurance group R+V lent €500mn, more than half of which is not collateralised, according to the documents...
...As we’ve covered previously, the US’s auto insurance rates have soared 24 per cent over the past two years (v BLS data)....
...California last month struck a deal with insurance companies to continue writing policies for property in disaster-prone areas, after big US names such as State Farm and Allstate stopped issuing any new...
...Perhaps insurance companies would also buy them as a hedge. Annuities from insurers are considered poor value for money now because rates are so low....
...A three-bedroom villa in Taormina is on the market for €1.35m with E&V....
...The tie-up between the number two and three brokerage companies in the insurance industry would be a game changer but competition authorities (and rivals) are likely to have something to say about it....
...But it is not the only insurance company with a financial interest in sport....
...Shares of Travelers, one of the largest US property and casualty insurance companies, weighed on the broader Dow Jones Industrial Average with a drop of 3 per cent at the start of trading on Monday, after...
...Higher payouts for claims at the car insurance company Geico were among the culprits, along with losses that Berkshire recorded as a result of its $10bn underwriting agreement with AIG....
...(FT) HK v SH The fight to attract IPOs used to play out between Hong Kong and Singapore but now the focus has moved northward....
...But the show’s editor, Huw Kennair-Jones, is not giving anything away....
...On the contrary, there is an incentive to migrate pre-Brexit to earn an active national insurance number....
...But it’s a useful insurance policy if the economy were to take a sudden cyclical lurch downwards....
...The board of David Jones on Wednesday recommended a A$4 a share offer by Woolworths to its shareholders – a 25 per cent premium on Tuesday’s closing price of $3.19....
...The number of Americans who claimed unemployment insurance for the first time leapt 78,000 last week to 439,000....
...(I) Transdek UK (I) Transec (UK) Tristar Cars t/a Tristar Worldwide Chauffeur Services TRL Technology (I) TTS Group Turbosound (I) U Ubisense Group Ubisense Group (I) Union Electric Steel UK V...
...While not slated to go into effect until next year, analysts said it would force insurance companies to increase premiums. The S&P healthcare sector was down 1.71 per cent....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 1.7 per cent at 11,447.49 and the Nasdaq index of tech shares rose 2.5 per cent to 2,542.86 at midday....
...At noon, the S&P 500 was down 0.5 per cent at 1,121.98, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had lost 0.4 per cent to 10,639.56 and the Nasdaq was 0.6 per cent lower at 2,288.93....
...This is permissible within the law but has been the subject of much controversy after cases such as Jones v Garnett (Arctic Systems Ltd case) which the taxpayer won....
...Wendell V. Graham, Washington DC, USA TF: In total about 24 UK stocks can be bought in the US....
...In the insurance sector, Prudential and Allstate both fell after reporting quarterly results....
...Back to the top Income shifting In July 2007 the House of Lords found in favour of the taxpayer in the Jones v Garnett (or Arctic Systems) case....
...and hardware products, and training and assimilation.; Sapiens International Corporation N.V....
...Insurance stocks were particularly hard hit after Metlife became the latest big American company to announce plans to raise capital in the midst of the credit freeze....
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