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NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market rebounded yesterday following a stronger-than-expected increase in pending home sales and a recovery in shares of energy companies.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose about 226 points, its third biggest gain of 201...
DATE: Jun 03, 2010
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee expanded his investigation of Johnson & Johnson yesterday, saying another 2008 recall casts doubt on the drugmaker's pledge of protecting consumers.
Chairman Ed...
DATE: Jun 02, 2010
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PowerPoint has taken a lot of flak recently, especially from the US military, for its overuse at presentations and its failure to help communicate complex topics. Now for the good story from researcher Sarah Kaplan, of the Joseph L. Rotman School of ...
DATE: Jun 02, 2010
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TORONTO (AP) – Canada yesterday became the first Group of Seven nation to raise interest rates since the global financial crisis, but said any further hikes would depend on global economic conditions.
The Bank of Canada increased its key interest rat...
DATE: Jun 02, 2010
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Butterfield Bank's share price yesterday surged 33 percent, helping to push The Royal Gazette/BSX Index up by 11.5 percent.
By early yesterday afternoon, Butterfield's common shares were trading at $2, up from Monday's closing price of $1.50.
Those w...
DATE: Jun 02, 2010
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TORONTO (Reuters) – General Motors Co will invest C$245 million ($233 million) to expand its St. Catharines, Ontario, plant to build fuel-efficient six-speed transmissions, the automaker said yesterday.
The plant will supply transmissions starting in...
DATE: Jun 02, 2010
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BC-USA-ECONOMY/CONSTRUCTION (UPDATE 1)
UPDATE 1-U.S. construction spending surges in April
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. construction spending rose unexpectedly in April, recording its largest monthly increase in nearly 10 ye...
DATE: Jun 02, 2010
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Butterfield Bank surged 33.3 percent to push The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index to its highest level since March.
The bank rose 50 cents to $2, on the trading of 36,191 shares.
Because of its heavy weighting on the BSX, the bank's huge ju...
DATE: Jun 02, 2010
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Bermuda's financial regulator is confident that it will achieve equivalence with the European Union's imminent Solvency II regulations.
Yesterday the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) announced that it had taken an important step nearer that goal, by ...
DATE: Jun 02, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) – Hewlett-Packard Co. said yesterday it will lay off about 9,000 workers in the unit that provides technology services to other businesses as the company consolidates and automates its commercial data centers.
The cuts will be made over...
DATE: Jun 02, 2010
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