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Sandy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... read reports of any human casualties. But as with any calamity, it's the insurance industry that's likely to be the main casualty. According to 'The Age', "Disaster estimator Eqecat says the storm could cause up to $20 billion in damage and affect 20 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
... after US stocks plunged on Monday amid renewed worries about the eurozone debt crisis, which claimed its first major US casualty -- a key brokerage that filed for bankruptcy. At 1210 on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 61 points, or 1.42 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
... YORK - US stocks plunged Monday amid renewed worries about the eurozone debt crisis, which claimed its first major US casualty -- a key brokerage that filed for bankruptcy. On the last day of trading in October, stocks were under pressure from the start ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2011
... summit, which produced no comprehensive plan but gave hints at real progress. The crisis though appeared to take a new casualty, though, as once high-flying broker-dealer MF Global was reported mulling seeking a buyer after its shares sank 52 per cent ...

Ausbil Dexia assures investors following European bailout

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
... process and people will remain intact," the statement concluded. Franco-Belgian bank Dexia last week became the first casualty of the banking crisis this year, after plans were announced for the Belgian government to buy its Belgian arm. To prevent the ...

Fund, Insurers unafraid of Japan quake cost

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... Munich Re at $30.3 billion and Lloyds at $28.9 billion, the report said. Global multiline insurers exposed to property and casualty lines in Japan are expected to take an earnings hit but because they are geographically diversified and have reinsurance ...

US insurer postpones IPO

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
... biggest initial public offerings of 2010 was withdrawn overnight. Liberty Mutual Group, the fifth largest property and casualty group in the US by direct written premiums, postponed plans to spin off one of its businesses, Liberty Mutual Agency Corporation ...

Real estate under threat

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
... means people will not get into real estate and find other ways to spend their capital," he said. LaSalle itself is a casualty of the global financial crisis. The group's December quarterly profit came in at $64 billion, approximately a 60 per cent slump ...

Cognacs and chocolates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
... goes the global economy. Hence, we have Europe and Japan in recession and Asia in a significant downturn. The latest casualty is Ireland - rumoured overnight that it may ask the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for assistance if the economic outlook ...

All I want for Christmas is a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... sure to pass the two million mark for the entirety of 2008 as heads that were guillotined in December are added to the casualty count. There are two ways of interpreting this. Negatively. This time it's different. This time it is the arteries of the ...