Prudential seeks Â£1bn injection
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Insurance giant Prudential asks shareholdhers to stump up Â£1bn to fund UK expansion and meet new EU funding rules.
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Prudential, the UK&#39;s second largest insurer, shocked its shareholders today by asking them to fund a Â£1bn expansion plan. The company has invited investors to buy one new share for every six they own at a reduced price of 308p.
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LONDON : British insurer Prudential announced plans to sell new shares worth one billion pounds (1.44 billion euros, 1.80 billion dollars) to expand in its home market and comply with new regulations.
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Australian building products group, James Hardie, agrees to pay $1.1bn to sufferers of asbestos-related diseases.
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MPs demand an explanation for the first run on a high-street bank in over a century.
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Taxpayers could be faced with a Â£1bn bill following the collapse of Metronet, a PPP arbiter says.
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Business & money: Bank could step in to tackle fresh inflation fears.
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Australian building products group James Hardie has agreed to pay $1.1bn (Â£568m) to victims of asbestos-related diseases. The landmark deal could see thousands of people suffering from lung diseases - caused
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Acute coughs cost the UK economy almost Â£1 billion every year, experts warn.
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British insurer Prudential announced a 92-percent take-up of a new share issue worth one billion pounds (1.43 billion euros, 1.85 billion dollars).
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The UK government publishes details of its plans to create a Â£1bn energy research institute.
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The Royal Navy needs an extra Â£1bn to keep up with future foreign policy demands, according to the officer at its head.
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Andrew Rosenfeld, former chief executive of property group Minerva Plc , is entering a 1 billion pound ($1.96 billion) property partnership with Goldman Sachs , The Sunday Times reported without citing sources.
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Foreign-owned banks will have to put about $1.7 billion in extra capital into their New Zealand businesses under new tax rules, officials believe.
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Gordon Brown will offer to $1.8bn (Â£960m) over 15 years to help boost an international vaccination scheme.
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Merck, the beleaguered US pharmaceuticals group, could be forced to pay out as much as $18bn (Â£9.7bn) over 10 years as a result of lawsuits linked to Vioxx, its controversial arthritis drug.
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Insurers says they are already looking at Â£1bn worth of claims arising from this week's floods.