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LONDON - Britain's top share index lost 0.19 percent as falling oil stocks, disappointing UK industrial output data and an early slide on Wall Street offset strength in miners. At the close, the FTSE 100 was 7.91 points lower at 4,817, a two-month lo...
DATE: Jul 08, 2009
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Bermuda's investment companies have been seeking to reassure their clients and maintain the reputation of the Island's financial services sector in the wake of an investigation launched into Emerald Financial Group.
LOM Asset Managment Ltd. admitted ...
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ROME (Bloomberg) - The world's most affluent nations will take decades to work off the biggest build-up in debt since World War II.
The political costs may be permanent, laid bare at this week's Group of Eight summit of leading industrial powers.
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — The UK government is to introduce rules to stop companies refusing jobs to workers because they appear on lists of known trade union activists.
A consultation on the proposals will be rushed through in six weeks to enable the gov...
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — European insurers such as Allianz SE and Axa SA may be forced to cut costs, outsource more functions and boost revenue from emerging markets to maintain earnings growth as the recession in their home markets deepens, consulting f...
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index closed sharply lower for a second consecutive session yesterday as worries about the global economy spurred risk aversion, pulling down weighty energy and bank shares.
Early dealings were choppy with ste...
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Digicel Limited today announced it has completed a US$160 million corporate bond offering, which is a reopening of the US$350 million of 12% senior notes due 2014 that were sold in March 2009. A further US$90 million of the existing 2014 bonds held b...
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XL Insurance has expanded its US aviation business with four new appointments to its New York-based underwriting team. The news comes after one of the most expensive periods since September 2001 for aviation insurers, with recent crashes off Brazil a...
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TOKYO (AP) - Sony Corp. said yesterday it will launch a tiny new laptop starting in August, the company's belated entry into the growing but cutthroat "netbook" PC market.
The new addition to its Vaio line of computers will cost about 60,000 yen ($63...
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LONDON (AP) — A business group said yesterday that the worst of Britain's recession is over, but the Bank of England should still print more money because recovery is not assured.
A separate report showed that manufacturing output fell in May, castin...
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