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LONDON - Britain's top shares rose 3.1 percent to hit a one-week high, with oil stocks the standout gainers led by BP as it was making progress in plugging a well which has been leaking in the Gulf of Mexico for five weeks. The FTSE 100 closed at 5,1...
DATE: May 28, 2010
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KUWAIT (Reuters) – Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA), the country's sovereign wealth fund, said yesterday it did not plan to reduce its exposure to euro zone investments, denying a Kuwaiti newspaper report.
"KIA denies local newspaper reports that th...
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index ended higher for a second straight session yesterday as commodity-linked stocks surged after China soothed investor worries by saying Europe was a key investment market.
Resource issues led the gains as ...
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Signet Jewelers Limited ("Signet") (NYSE and LSE: SIG), the world's largest specialty retail jeweler, today announced its results for the 13 weeks ended May 1, 2010 ("first quarter fiscal 2011").
First Quarter Highlights
-- Same store sales: up 5.8%
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Bermuda-based fund manager Kingate Management may have "played a crucial role" in the Bernard Madoff debacle, a London judge said yesterday.
The Kingate Global and Kingate euro hedge funds — now in liquidation in the British Virgin Islands — were amo...
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BEIJING (AP) – China's government launched an investigation yesterday of rising food costs and threatened to punish price gouging or misconduct in commodities trading in a new effort to cool inflation.
Local authorities were told to break up efforts ...
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The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange Index remained unchanged for a second successive day.
The only domestic board issuer to trade was Bermuda Aviation Services Ltd. The company remained on $7.80, as 7,600 shares changed hands.
The Index stayed...
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Ever wished there was somewhere you could go to retreat from the madness of the day and experience a few minutes of stress-free peace?
Deryn Higgins hopes that her new store — appropriately named My Sereni-tea — will be just such a haven for many peo...
DATE: May 27, 2010
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NEW YORK (BestWire) — The high net worth property insurance market in Florida has certain characteristics, like quality construction, which makes the risk acceptable to Bermuda-based Ironshore as it enters the Sunshine State.
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