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LONDON (AP) - World stock markets surged yesterday while the dollar slid against the euro in the wake of the Federal Reserve's decision to pump in another $600 billion into the US economy in a fresh attempt to shore up the US economic recovery.
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LONDON (AP) — Average house prices in Britain are on a downward trend despite a 1.8 percent rise in October, the country's biggest mortgage lender said yesterday.
The monthly rise reported Thursday by Halifax followed a 3.7 percent slump a month earl...
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Ignition (Cayman) Ltd. has been awarded a major contract to digitise and index more than one million documents for the lands and survey department of the Cayman Islands government.
Ignition, which is based in Bermuda and has offices in the US and Can...
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DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co shares hit a six-year high for the second straight session yesterday, the day after the automaker reported sales that outperformed the US auto industry.
The stock rose as much as 4.3 percent to $15.83, its highest le...
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LONDON (AP) — London's Olympic Park could be transformed into a rival to Silicon Valley under plans outlined yesterday for Britain to create a new home for the world's leading technology companies.
In a speech, Prime Minister David Cameron said he ho...
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England added no more stimulus to the economy yesterday after its November policy meeting, seeming to want evidence of a sharper economic slowdown before it considers the US path of more quantitative easing.
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LONDON (AP) — Toyota recalled 12,000 British cars yesterday over a software fault which the company said could make it harder to steer over road safety strips.
The Toyota Motor Corp.'s British arm said that the voluntary recall affects iQ vehicles pr...
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The Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) has appointed both Peter Christie and Michael Cascio to the role of senior adviser.
Both join the team of senior advisers established by the Authority in July as part of its resourcing strategy related to the BMA'...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Assured Guaranty Ltd., the bond insurer stripped of the industry's last AAA ranking last month, said net income rose to $180.9 million in the third quarter, in part because it successfully forced mortgage bond sel...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Hedge funds rose 1.5 percent in October, reaching the highest level in more than two years as global equity markets rallied, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The Bloomberg aggregate hedge fund index increased to 117.13 ...
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