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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index pushed higher yesterday, helped by strong US and Canadian trade data, as well as a sharp rise in natural gas prices, which drove oil and gas producers higher.
Gas futures jumped eight percent on the New ...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Wall Street firms are recovering. Their standing with the American public isn't.
Executives at financial firms, coming off two years of failures, bailouts and write-downs, are less popular than Congress, lawyers and insurance c...
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said yesterday the government is unlikely to recoup its investments in insurer American International Group Inc. or the automakers General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC.
Geithner also s...
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LONDON - Strong banks pushed Britain's top share index 0.8 percent higher by the close, rebounding after recent falls sparked by Dubai debt concerns, on continuing relief after Wednesday's pre-budget report.
The FTSE 100 closed up 40.48 points at 5,2...
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Dubai business leaders voiced support yesterday for some of the emirate's stronger state-linked companies, as the finance chief dismissed media coverage of the sheikdom's debt woes as "blind panic" and the city-stat...
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain may lose its top credit rating unless borrowing is cut faster, Conservative economics chief George Osborne said yesterday, but finance minister Alistair Darling said Labour's plans would soothe markets.
In interviews with R...
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Sir John Swan believes his new building at 141 Front Street will represent the future of Bermuda for years to come.
>The developer and former Premier, who has produced a brochure on the property entitled 'A Greener way to work' which is printed on 10...
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England left its asset purchase programme intact at £200 billion ($325 billion) and held interest rates at 0.5 percent yesterday, as widely expected.
Policymakers have indicated they would not shift policy until at leas...
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Butterfield Bank's common shares dropped 1.25 percent (five cents) to $3.95 on The Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
The bank traded 554 shares during the day.
Overall, the Index dipped 8.74 points (0.42 percent) to 2,095.82, as 554 share...
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