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Cut Crop Insurance Subsidy by $40 Billion, Say Fiscal Conservatives
A coalition of fiscal conservatives on Tuesday called for a steep cut in federal subsidies for crop insurance, setting up a clash with U.S. farm groups that see the program as their top priority in a ...Mexico Launches $1.2B Fund To Help Homebuilders
Mexico announced a new program aimed at buoying the country's battered homebuilders by promising to put up billions of pesos to back commercial credit to the industry. The 15 billion pesos ($1.2 ...Disney Shareholders Reject CEO/Chair Split
Walt Disney Co. shareholders on Wednesday re-elected the company's board, including Chair and Chief Executive Bob Iger, and rejected an investor proposal to separate the roles of chairman and CEO in ...
Pension Funds Join Together To Invest In Fledgling Asset Class: Farmland
Major asset managers, cowed by the cost, the risk and the controversy involved in investing in farmland, are joining forces to increase investment in the historically under-capitalized sector. In one ...SCOR 2012 Net Income Jumps 27%
Paris-based SCOR reported net income of EUR 418 million ($545 million), representing an increase of 26.7 percent over the 2011 result, which was EUR 330 million ($430 million). The company said that ...American Safety 4Q Damaged By Reserve Charges, Sandy
American Safety Insurance Holdings' fourth-quarter 2012 results suffered more from a reserve charge than Superstorm Sandy losses, but both combined to put red ink on the bottom line. Still, while the ...