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Bermuda-based Vistaprint Ltd. has launched a new brand strategy with a focus on its website redesign, logo and tagline.
The small business marketing company yesterday unveiled a number of changes to showcase its range of products and services availab...
DATE: Jun 25, 2009
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Hiscox Ltd., the third-biggest insurer at Lloyd's of London, plans to increase capacity at its main sales unit by a third as the market forecasts the dollar will strengthen against the pound next year.
Hiscox's initial business p...
DATE: Jun 25, 2009
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DALLAS (Bloomberg) — Allen Stanford's court-appointed receiver needn't wait for a resolution of fraud charges against the Texas financier before selling properties that are draining cash, his lawyer said.
The money could be used to repay investors al...
DATE: Jun 25, 2009
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index shot higher yesterday after an OECD report said the global economic outlook has improved for the first time in two years.
The TSX index's financial group led the index higher with a gain of 2.74 percent ...
DATE: Jun 25, 2009
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve yesterday stuck to its huge programme of buying government and mortgage debt and said it saw signs that the deep US recession was easing.
The Fed — the US central bank, keeping interest rates at nearly zero,...
DATE: Jun 25, 2009
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Butterfield Bank's new preference shares have started trading - and some investors have already cashed them in at a 12 percent profit.
Investors originally paid $1,000 for the preference shares earlier this month, but their closing price on the Bermu...
DATE: Jun 25, 2009
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LONDON (AP) — British homewares retailer Habitat apologised yesterday after ads for the store appeared on Twitter tagged with words linked to the Iranian election crisis.
Some Twitter users became angry after the upmarket store's messages turned up i...
DATE: Jun 25, 2009
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Lancashire Insurance Co. Ltd. and Lancashire Insurance Co. (UK) Ltd. have been affirmed the financial strength rating of A- (excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of "a-" by AM Best. The outlook for all ratings is stable. The rating agency said ...
DATE: Jun 25, 2009
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ST. JOHN'S, Antigua (AP) — Antigua and Barbuda fired its chief financial regulator Tuesday night, four days after US prosecutors charged that he accepted more than $100,000 in bribes to help Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford with an alleged $7 bill...
DATE: Jun 25, 2009
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PARIS (Reuters) - Britain's economy will shrink by 4.3 percent this year, its fastest pace of decline since World War Two, and stagnate in 2010, top international researchers said yesterday.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (...
DATE: Jun 25, 2009
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