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Bermudians and tourists will be able to navigate their way around the Island much easier thanks to a new online map launched by Google.
The Internet website search engine introduced the programme called MapMaker, which is currently being used to put ...
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MIAMI (Bloomberg) — Sales of distressed Miami properties have begun, signalling a bottom for south Florida's real estate market and the end of waiting for vulture funds armed with about $30 billion to spend.
The sale of 120 condominiums last month to...
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TORONTO (Reuters) — The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index skidded sharply for a third session yesterday, battered by worries about slowing global growth and the impact that will have on the demand for resources.
Concerns over weakness in the US lab...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street plunged yesterday, sending the Dow Jones industrial down more than 340 points as retailers and the Labor Department added to the mountain of dismal economic news that has all but dashed investors' hopes for a late-year rec...
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Insured losses from Hurricane Gustav are expected to be revised downwards today, with catastrophe modelling firm Risk Management Solutions set to release updated estimates.
RMS catastrophe response manager Neena Saith said yesterday that while it was...
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Bermuda insurers saw their market capitalisation plunge by hundreds of millions of dollars yesterday, as Wall Street suffered its steepest decline in more than two months.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled by 340 points, after government figur...
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MONTERREY, Mexico (Bloomberg) - Tyco Electronics Ltd., the world's biggest maker of electronic connectors, plans to close three automotive-products plants in Europe in a restructuring that will affect 850 workers and cost $155 million.
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WILMINGTON, Delaware (Bloomberg) - Sea Containers Ltd., a shipping container provider, is still negotiating details of $150 million in bankruptcy exit financing and faces "severe consequences" if it misses several looming deadlines, a company attorne...
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Digicel has announced it has added the BlackBerry Bold smartphone to its range of handsets.
The Bold is the first BlackBerry to support tri-band high-speed networks around the world and comes with integrated GPS and Wi-Fi, as well as a set of multime...
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LONDON (Reuters) - New car registrations in Britain fell an annual 18.6 percent last month to record the market's weakest August since 1966, a survey showed yesterday.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said there were just 63,225 car reg...
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