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Residential properties are holding their value well despite the effects of the economic downturn.
That is the view of Buddy Rego, president of Rego Sotheby’s International Realty, who said the price of stand-alone homes had risen 11 percent and condo...
DATE: Dec 09, 2010
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PRAGUE (AP) Thousands of angry state employees walked off the job yesterday across the Czech Republic to protest salary cuts, forcing the closure of hundreds of schools and government offices in what union leaders claimed was one of the largest prote...
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LONDON (AP) Stocks in Europe and the US traded in narrow ranges yesterday as bond market investors fretted about Europe’s debt crisis and, increasingly, over the scale of US borrowing following President Barack Obama’s agreement with the Republicans ...
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DUBLIN (AP) Prime Minister Brian Cowen insisted yesterday he won’t resign and plans to lead his party into an early spring election once the toughest budget in Irish history has been passed in full.
Cowen mounted a vigorous defence of his embattled l...
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Mark Byrne has stepped down from the board of Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings, the company he co-founded in Bermuda five years ago.
The company also announced yesterday that it would pay more than $100 million to buy shares and a warrant owned by comp...
DATE: Dec 09, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) The compromise backed by President Barack Obama and Republican leaders on extending tax cuts crushed bonds yesterday as traders expected the plan to lead to higher budget deficits and a pickup in economic growth. Stocks posted modest ga...
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Two young Bermudian entrepreneurs are to launch a boutique selling exotic products from Thailand in a shopping night to be held at the Port O’ Call restaurant tomorrow night.
Rachel Sawden’s business, Wanderlust Boutique, will offer hand-made jewelle...
DATE: Dec 09, 2010
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LONDON (Bloomberg) The UK opened a consultation on how to tighten the rules for issuing visas to foreign students, as the government looked for ways to meet Prime Minister David Cameron’s pledge to bring net annual immigration below 100,000.
Ideas un...
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HONG KONG (Bloomberg) Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission is seeking a new chief executive officer as Martin Wheatley ends a six-year tenure marked by a crackdown on market misconduct and the global financial crisis.
Wheatley, 51, who joine...
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On a day when almost $250,000 of shares changed hands, the Royal Gazette/BSX Index rose 8.75 points, or 0.77 percent, to 1,147.26.
A high volume of Butterfield Bank shares traded, 124,067 in total, was the main contributor to the large turnover of $2...
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