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LONDON (Reuters) – British retail sales stalled in August, confounding expectations of a small rise as clothing sales exerted the biggest downward impact, official data showed yesterday.
Analysts had predicted a 0.1 percent rise on the month and the ...
DATE: Sep 18, 2009
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The Ascendant Group Ltd. suffered a drop of more than $1 million in net earnings during the first half of this year, mainly due to the cost of maintaining Belco's scheduled electricity power plant.
The group, which comprises subsidiaries Belco, Bermu...
DATE: Sep 18, 2009
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US households' net worth rose by $2 trillion to $53.1 trillion in the second quarter, the first increase since before the recession began in 2007, Federal Reserve data showed yesterday.
The increase in wealth came in a period t...
DATE: Sep 18, 2009
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From pulling stranded cars out of ditches or fishing them out of the sea to unlocking vehicles with their keys shut inside - you name it, Duane Lowe has been there and done it.
Mr. Lowe, who launched his company Lowe's Towing, a 24/7 recovery service...
DATE: Sep 18, 2009
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Plans to regulate hedge funds and private equity in the European Union have exposed disagreements across the bloc and the US, even as lawmakers publicly press for greater cooperation.
The current proposals on alternative investme...
DATE: Sep 18, 2009
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A loyalty card scheme which rewards customers for shopping at a host of member stores across Bermuda will be wound up at the end of next month.
Organisers of the Payback! Programme, which was launched five years ago with between 50 and 60 participati...
DATE: Sep 18, 2009
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PARIS (Reuters) – Airlines are at last beginning to fill vacant business-class seats in a sign that a slump in cross-border trade is easing, an industry body said yesterday.
Latest July statistics from the International Air Transport Association add ...
DATE: Sep 18, 2009
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Adding to evidence the recession has ended, housing construction rose in August and fewer laid-off workers sought jobless aid last week.
Still, the reports suggested a slow and fragile economic recovery. The rise in housing starts w...
DATE: Sep 18, 2009
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Butterfield Bank's common shares slipped five cents (0.99 percent) to close at $5 on The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) yesterday.
The bank traded 4,300 common shares during the day.
The only other trader was BF&M Ltd., which saw 2,500 shares change ha...
DATE: Sep 18, 2009
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Lloyd's of London insurers pulled as much as half a billion pounds ($825 million) from hedge funds and private equity after investment returns at the world's oldest insurance market fell by more than half.
Bermuda-based Catlin Gr...
DATE: Sep 18, 2009
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