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NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks ended the next-to-last day of 2009 little changed as welcome news on manufacturing helped offset a drop in commodities prices.
The market drew support yesterday from a key economic indicator that signaled growth in the Midwest ...
DATE: Dec 31, 2009
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LONDON (AP) — A record £82.5 billion was raised through new and further issues of equity on the London Stock Exchange over 2009, a 16 percent increase on 2008, the bourse said yesterday.
The LSE said there were a total of 69 new issues on the exchang...
DATE: Dec 30, 2009
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A former Government statistician has predicted 2009's inflation rate will be the lowest for three decades.
Cordell Riley, who is now managing director of Profiles Bermuda, said he believed inflation this year would be 1.8 percent - down from 4.8 perc...
DATE: Dec 30, 2009
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Bermuda-based Orient-Express Hotels Ltd., owners or part-owners and managers of 49 luxury hotel, restaurant, tourist train and river cruise properties operating in 25 countries, has announced the acquisition of a fifth property in Peru - a hotel in t...
DATE: Dec 30, 2009
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Goldman Sachs Buys $57 Million in Claims on Lehman (Update1)
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Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) -- A unit of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. bought about $57 million in claims on bankrupt Lehman Brothers Hold...
DATE: Dec 30, 2009
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Bermuda's retailers face a tougher year in 2010 than 2009, but there are a number of steps which can be taken to relieve the pressure on the sector as a whole.
That is the view of George Grundmuller, president and CEO of the Phoenix Stores Ltd., who ...
DATE: Dec 30, 2009
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ROME (Bloomberg) — Italians have declared 95 billion euros ($137.1 billion) under a tax-evasion amnesty for funds held abroad, the Finance Ministry said yesterday.
About 98 percent of the funds were brought back to Italy, the ministry said in an e-ma...
DATE: Dec 30, 2009
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NEW YORK (AP) - The stock market edged lower yesterday, breaking a six-day advance as reports on home prices and consumer confidence did little to excite buyers.
Major indexes rose modestly in the early going but slipped as the dollar strengthened an...
DATE: Dec 30, 2009
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Bermuda Press (Holdings) Ltd. was the biggest mover on The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) yesterday.
The publisher rose 50 cents (four percent) to $13, with 4,000 shares traded.
Elsewhere, KeyTech Ltd. saw 1,300 shares change hands to climb five cents ...
DATE: Dec 30, 2009
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WASHINGTON (AP) - High-tech security scanners that might have prevented the Christmas Day attempt to blow up a jetliner have been installed in only a small number of airports around the world, in large part because of privacy concerns over the machin...
DATE: Dec 30, 2009
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