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Belco Holdings Ltd. bounced back from its recent slump on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
The utilities company saw its share price rise 65 cents (3.31 percent) to $20.25, with 5,100 shares traded.
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — MF Global Ltd., the Bermuda-based derivatives broker, is starting a nuclear fuel trading desk in London, at least the third effort in the past 18 months by brokers and exchanges to make uranium more tradable.
MF Global hired Scot...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — MBIA Inc. rose the most in seven months after the company agreed to reinsure $184 billion in municipal bonds for Financial Guaranty Insurance Co., winning new business after losing its top AAA rating.
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) - Canadian stocks rose to the highest in seven weeks, led by financial companies, after two of the country's biggest banks had better-than-expected earnings, and one raised the dividend.
Royal Bank of Canada paced financial compan...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - MBIA Inc. rose the most in four weeks after agreeing to reinsure $184 billion in municipal bonds for Financial Guaranty Insurance Co. (FGIC), winning new business after losing its top AAA rating.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Strong exports and consumer spending supported by government stimulus cheques pushed the US economy ahead at a solid 3.3 percent annual rate in the second quarter, much stronger than first thought, but growth is expected to fla...
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. has lost its lead of the US market for online display advertising to MySpace and its parent company News Corp's Fox Interactive Media and MySpace, new industry data shows.
Fox Interactive's collection of sites, le...
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LONDON (Reuters) - British house prices fell 1.9 percent this month alone and retail sales dropped at their sharpest pace in at least 25 years, two separate surveys showed yesterday, adding to the gloom on the economic outlook.
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Bermuda's two Fairmont hotels took on 73 summer students this year — the most in recent years, the company said.
Fifty-three of the young people worked at the Fairmont Southampton and 20 at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess.
Nelda Simons, regional direc...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A security flaw in Apple Inc.'s iPhone allows unauthorised users to gain easy access to private contacts and e-mails even when the device is locked, but the company said a fix is on the way.
Popular technology blog Gizmodo and an...
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