- Thursday, February 23, 2012, 11:14
- Financial News
HONG KONG/BANGKOK (Reuters) - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is pushing into the Thai reinsurance market and selling cover for higher rates, taking advantage of the retreat of competitors such as France's CCR after they suffered losses from last year's floods....
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- Thursday, February 23, 2012, 10:45
- Financial News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday it was still considering whether to support Japan's bid to join talks on a trans-Pacific regional free trade agreement, three months after Tokyo announced interest in the negotiations....
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- Thursday, February 23, 2012, 9:10
- Financial News
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co's earnings fell nearly 44 percent and the world's No. 1 computer maker forecast a second-quarter profit below Wall Street estimates as it struggles with weak sales of PCs and printers.
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- Thursday, February 23, 2012, 7:35
- Financial News
ATHENS (Reuters) - Trade unionists, communists and pensioners angry at punishing spending cuts in Greece marched through central Athens on Wednesday as lawmakers set to work on legislation needed to secure payment of a second bailout for the debt-laden country....
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- Thursday, February 23, 2012, 6:30
- Financial News
Feb 22 (Reuters) - BP Plc and Anadarko
Petroleum Corp are liable and Transocean Ltd
may be liable for civil damages under federal
pollution laws over the catastrophic 2010 Gulf of
Mexico oil spill, a U.S. judge ruled.
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- Thursday, February 23, 2012, 6:00
- Financial News
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Group of 20 policymakers are hoping for a signal this weekend that Europe will boost crisis funding, smoothing the way for a deal to increase International Monetary Fund resources, the head of Mexico's central bank said on Wednesday....
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- Thursday, February 23, 2012, 4:55
- Financial News
Overdraft fees, a profit center for banks, are the latest target of a new U.S. financial watchdog, which said Wednesday it would demand data from banks and work to make checking-account statements easier to understand.
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- Thursday, February 23, 2012, 4:25
- Financial News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. central bank officials have good reason to be skeptical about the strength of the economy: excessive optimism has caught them flat-footed before.
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- Thursday, February 23, 2012, 3:21
- Financial News
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A series of technology companies, including security software maker Palo Alto Networks, are preparing to go public on the heels of Facebook's -billion filing, sensing a window of opportunity as the stock market rallies....
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- Thursday, February 23, 2012, 1:45
- Financial News
(Reuters) - While Wall Street slashes pay and freezes cash awards, Goldman Sachs Group's top five executives may reap special bonuses of .5 million apiece if the firm hits historically easy profit targets over the next two years....
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