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LONDON (AP) — A group of influential British lawmakers wrote a letter to the financial regulator yesterday expressing concern at last week's lifting of a ban on short selling of financial stocks, which was immediately followed by a sharp sell-off in ...
DATE: Jan 22, 2009
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) - Canadian stocks rose for the first time in three days, sending the main index to its biggest gain this year as energy producers rallied along with oil prices and finance companies rebounded from a five-year low.
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DATE: Jan 22, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — A commodity vessel owned by STX Pan Ocean Co., seized in relation to a lawsuit brought by Bermuda-based shipping line Golden Ocean Group Ltd., has been released and the dispute settled.
The two sides "reached a settlement" and ...
DATE: Jan 22, 2009
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LONDON (AP) — Unemployment in Britain rose to nearly two million in November, fuelling speculation yesterday that statistics later this week will show the economy contracting at its sharpest rate since the early days of Margaret Thatcher's government...
DATE: Jan 22, 2009
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XL Insurance yesterday announced an expansion of its property loss prevention services business with the hiring of eight new field engineers.
The new employees of XL Global Asset Protection Services (XL GAPS) will assume their roles in France, German...
DATE: Jan 22, 2009
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MADRID (Bloomberg) — Spain had its AAA sovereign credit rating removed by Standard & Poor's in the second downgrade of a euro-region government in five days, as the country's first recession in 15 years swelled the budget deficit.
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DATE: Jan 21, 2009
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Microsoft has released a beta version of the successor to the much-maligned Vista operating system. Reading some of the reviews in the tech magazines, I get the impression one should consider Windows 7 as Vista Reloaded or as the successor to the dep...
DATE: Jan 21, 2009
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Dockyard's traders are up in arms over the West End Development Corporation's (Wedco) decision not to offer rent relief this winter, for the first time in 15 years.
Retailers in the Clocktower Mall were baffled when Wedco told them they would not be ...
DATE: Jan 21, 2009
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MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's Fiat will take a 35 percent stake in US car maker Chrysler LLC — valued at zero by its part-owner — in a deal aimed at helping the pair survive the worst crisis to hit their industry in decades.
Fiat is not paying cash for t...
DATE: Jan 21, 2009
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index fell 3.8 percent yesterday as a relentlessly gloomy global economic outlook spurred a broad-based sell-off led by energy and financial issues.
While oil prices jumped six percent ahead of the expiration ...
DATE: Jan 21, 2009
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