76369 results returned for search: "" category "Business"
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's transportation regulator has put the Machu Picchu railroad concession of Bermuda-based Orient-Express Hotels under review, as would-be competitors pressure the luxury tourism company to open its tracks to competition.
The comp...
DATE: Dec 29, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The US dollar rose versus the yen on Friday after data showing sharp declines in Japan's industrial output and inflation fuelled speculation the Bank of Japan would pump large amounts of cash into the economy.
However, the dollar...
DATE: Dec 29, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
A trading week shortened to just two-and-a-half days brought little change to The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) Index.
Three stocks moved - all downward - amid light trading, as 6.146 shares changed hands. Turnover was $70,810.60.
The ...
DATE: Dec 29, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canada's economy contracted a less- than-anticipated 0.1 percent in October as wholesalers processed fewer shipments of automobiles and factory production dropped.
Wholesaling declined 2.7 percent as automotive sales slipped "si...
DATE: Dec 29, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
NEW YORK (Reuters) - As the US stock market heads into the last week of the year, what was inconceivable just 12 months ago is now a stark possibility: 2008 could be the worst year ever for Wall Street.
The US market's most tracked benchmark, the S&P...
DATE: Dec 29, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
When it's over, I hope this recession will be known as the time when America lost its devotion to debt.
In my last online discussion of the year, I was again reminded of the damage debt has done to so many families. So as I often do, I'm answering so...
DATE: Dec 27, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Q: What gives with my Becton, Dickinson and Co. shares? I thought that its products were always needed. - BR, via the Internet
A: The world's largest manufacturer and distributor of surgical products makes items that are health-care staples.
Its surg...
DATE: Dec 27, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
NEW YORK (AP) - Retail gasoline prices tumbled yesterday to the lowest level in nearly four years. And while crude futures rose, analysts believed it was a temporary pause in an extended, downward arc as the recession spreads.
"We're paying about a b...
DATE: Dec 27, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) Index showed no change after no shares were traded on Christmas Eve. Investors obviously had their minds on other things as a shortened trading session saw no activity. The BSX Insurance Index of leadi...
DATE: Dec 27, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — US stocks rose, giving the Standard & Poor's 500 Index its first back-to-back gains in three weeks, after GMAC LLC's conversion to a bank spurred a rally in General Motors Corp. and oil's increase sent Exxon Mobil Corp. higher....
DATE: Dec 27, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
