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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bermuda-based diversified manufacturer Ingersoll-Rand Co Ltd cut its profit forecast for the third quarter and all of 2008, citing weaker North American and Western European markets and a rebound in the US dollar, but shares reco...
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Department store AS Cooper and Sons will be discontinuing its in house charge accounts as of October 25.
Coopers managing director P. Somers Cooper told The Royal Gazette that the store is making the move simply because charge accounts have become so...
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Argus Group shares fell $0.15 (1.16 percent) yesterday in trading on the Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange.
Argus closed at $12.75 — falling to a new 52-week low — after 5,000 shares changed hands.
The only other active stock yesterday was Butterf...
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Hurrah! OpenOffice 3.0 has been released, but you'll have to wait a bit before testing this update of the open source answer to Microsoft Office.
That is because since the release, the OpenOffice.org site has been swamped with downloads. Now the site...
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BEIJING (Bloomberg) — Air China Ltd., facing its first drop in full-year domestic traffic since 2003, forecast an increase of as much as 10 percent next year as the nation's growth shields the carrier from a global economic slowdown.
"The demand for ...
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TOKYO (Bloomberg) — Toyota Motor Corp., Japan's biggest carmaker, surged the most in almost 21 years in Tokyo after US and European governments agreed to buy stakes in banks helping ease credit market concerns.
Toyota rose 500 yen, its daily trading ...
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LONDON (AP) — SABMiller PLC — the brewer of Grolsch, Miller Genuine Draft and Peroni Nastro Azzurro lagers — said beer sales increased slightly in the first half of its fiscal year, as rising demand from emerging markets offset slowing demand from es...
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ATLANTA (Bloomberg) — AMR Corp. and UAL Corp., parents of the two largest US airlines, may lead third-quarter losses in an industry beset by near-record fuel costs and a slowing economy.
The combined operating deficit for the 10 biggest US airlines w...
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Bermuda insurer Ironshore announced yesterday that IronBuilt, its specialty construction unit, has partnered with Crump Insurance Services to introduce an exclusive general liability programme for residential and commercial subcontractors with premiu...
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LONDON (AP) — British housing and retail sales plunged and inflation skyrocketed in September as the financial crisis worsened, three new reports said yesterday. But as the stock market rose on the back of an enormous government bank bailout plan, ex...
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