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LONDON (Reuters) - World stocks' deep plunge into bear market territory is causing investors to seek short-term refuge in a defensive bunker, but a broad tumble in risky assets sets an almost perfect stage for a strong recovery later.
Stock indexes f...
DATE: Jul 17, 2008
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The Department of Statistics yesterday released a revised guidance book, the Bermuda Standard Classification of Occupations booklet (BSCO-08). The BSCO-08 is one of the main documents issued to all employers and self-employed persons during the condu...
DATE: Jul 17, 2008
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — HBOS, the UK's biggest mortgage lender, will cut as many as 650 jobs as it merges two operations serving "small and medium-sized" corporate customers over the next 18 months. HBOS will redeploy an additional 350 jobs as the Edinb...
DATE: Jul 17, 2008
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Butterfield Bank customers can get the benefit of some expert advice on investment thanks to a new business centre launched this week.
The new Butterfield Investment Centre, which is located on the second floor of its head office in Front Street, off...
DATE: Jul 17, 2008
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BEIJING (Bloomberg) - China's insurers booked 561.8 billion yuan ($82.5 billion) in premiums in the first half of this year, up 51 percent from a year earlier, the nation's insurance regulator said.
Of the total, life insurance premiums jumped 83.7 p...
DATE: Jul 17, 2008
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new york (Bloomberg) — Wells Fargo & Co., the biggest bank on the US West Coast, rose the most in more than 25 years after reporting better-than-expected second-quarter profit and raising its dividend.
Wells Fargo advanced $4.09 to $24.56 in 10.29 a....
DATE: Jul 17, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street - at least for the moment - shrugged off some of its many concerns yesterday and bounded higher thanks to a drop in oil prices. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 276 points, or 2.5 percent, posting its best daily gain ...
DATE: Jul 17, 2008
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Butterfield Bank was the only company to experience any movement during a quiet day on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
The bank traded 1,100 shares as it climbed five cents (0.31 percent) to close on $16.
Overall the I...
DATE: Jul 17, 2008
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Many parents have been caught completely unaware by the explosion of use of social networking sites such as Myspace and Facebook, and find themselves curiously uneasy about their young person of early teens sharing social networking space with people...
DATE: Jul 16, 2008
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Yahoo Inc. executive accused Microsoft Corp. of teaming up with activist investor Carl Icahn to force a "fire sale" price for Yahoo's search business.
Yahoo General Counsel Michael Callahan, in testimony yesterday to a US con...
DATE: Jul 16, 2008
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