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VIENNA (Bloomberg) - UniCredit SpA, Italy's biggest bank, plans to cut 9,000 jobs, or five percent of its workforce, after making $61 billion of acquisitions during the past three years.
The reductions will be in Italy, Germany and Austria as the com...
DATE: Jun 27, 2008
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Visa Inc. yesterday said it will reduce the transaction fees it charges gasoline retailers, who have complained that their profits are being eroded by them.
The fees are a fixed percentage of every transaction, usually just under tw...
DATE: Jun 27, 2008
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Mike Lytle, a third-generation fisherman from the coastal village of Cordova, said many residents there were walking around stunned, shaking their heads.
A lot of people he knows were planning their retirements with the $2.5 ...
DATE: Jun 27, 2008
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Bermuda Commercial Bank was the big winner on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
The bank saw its share price rise $1 (9.09 percent) to close at $12, with 2,700 shares traded.
KeyTech Ltd. (45 cents) and Argus Group Holdi...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Should an employee get paid for reading a BlackBerry at the dinner table, sending an office e-mail or posting a job-related blog at home?
A spat at ABC News over paying writers to check their BlackBerries on their own time recent...
DATE: Jun 27, 2008
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Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. has appointed Michael Steel as executive vice-president and chief risk officer, starting next month.
Mr. Steel, who will be based in the company's London office, will report directly to John Charman, CEO and p...
DATE: Jun 27, 2008
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CellularOne relaunched its fifth store in St. George's yesterday.
Michael Leverock, chief operating officer of CellularOne, said: "When deciding to move to this new location, we kept our St. George's customers in mind.
"We wanted to offer this great ...
DATE: Jun 27, 2008
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - National Australia Bank Ltd., the nation's largest bank, is assessing an offer for HBOS plc.'s Australian unit, said two people with knowledge of the matter.
National Australia, which has not approached HBOS, met with advisory fi...
DATE: Jun 27, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - The global credit crisis will slow construction and US economic growth for at least 18 more months, Nucor Corp. CEO Dan DiMicco said.
"We haven't seen the worst impact on the economy yet," the CEO of the largest US steel produc...
DATE: Jun 27, 2008
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Argus Group will soon provide medical coverage to students injured on the job.
Currently students fall into a grey area because while they are covered as dependents on their parents' health insurance policy that coverage does not apply if the injury ...
DATE: Jun 27, 2008
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