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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - US stocks rose to a five-month high, led by financial shares, after Citigroup Inc.'s earnings topped estimates and an unexpected drop in industrial production added to signs the Federal Reserve will help fuel the recovery.
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Persistent, loud noise in the workplace more than doubles the risk for heart disease, Canadian researchers say. Among those at highest risk are younger men who smoke, which by itself is a risk factor for heart disease, the study authors noted.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto ditched plans to form the world's biggest iron ore joint venture, in a victory for steelmakers that could prompt both miners to step up competing expansions.
The announcement marked the second failed a...
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Hardy Underwriting Bermuda Ltd. yesterday rejected a $250 million takeover bid from Beazley plc.
Hardy, which moved its domicile from London to Bermuda in 2008, said its board voted unanimously to reject the approach.
Beazley said yesterday it had of...
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More than half of professionals would turn back the clock and change their career paths if they could, a new survey in New Zealand by not-for profit the Workchoice Trust has revealed.
The survey, completed by over 200 mainly university-educated profe...
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Bermuda-based Seadrill has entered into an agreement for the construction of two jack-up drilling rigs with Jurong Shipyard (JSPL) in Singapore.
The new units are scheduled for delivery in the fourth quarter of 2012 and first quarter of 2013 respecti...
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Butterfield Bank is using some advice from major shareholder the Carlyle Group to help ensure that the investment problems that plagued it over the past three years cannot happen again.
The bank's new chief financial officer Brad Rowse told The Royal...
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NEW DELHI (Bloomberg) - Coal India Ltd., the world's biggest producer of the fuel, received as much as 52.3 billion rupees ($1.2 billion) of bids on the first day of the nation's largest initial public offering (IPO).
Investors bid for 213.49 million...
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The Bermuda Stock Exchange opened and closed at 1,264.21 yesterday with 330 shares worth US$15,510 traded.
Butterfield Bank was the main trader with 10 shares changing hands, but its share price held firm at 1,000.
The BSX Insurance Index was also un...
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MOSCOW (AP) - British oil company BP has agreed to sell its energy assets in Venezuela and Vietnam to its Russian joint venture for $1.8 billion, the companies said in a statement yesterday.
The deal is part of a series of sales BP plc. is making to ...
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