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BRUSSELS (Bloomberg) - European Union (EU) regulators charged Gaz de France SA and E.ON AG, Germany's biggest utility, with breaking EU anti-trust rules by agreeing not to sell natural gas in each other's markets.
The European Commission said in a st...
DATE: Jun 13, 2008
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LONDON (Reuters) - British sweets to DVDs retailer Woolworths Group plc. has been fined £350,000 ($684,100) for failing to disclose information to the market in a timely manner, Britain's financial regulator said yesterday.
"Woolworths' failure to di...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - Yahoo! Inc., fighting investor Carl Icahn for control of the board, fell 3.7 percent after a technology blog suggested the Internet company may announce a partnership on web-search advertising with Google Inc.
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LONDON (Reuters) - It takes a lot for a London banker to walk past a shiny fleet of modern cars every day and not buy one. Something like a credit crunch.
While casual visitors came out in force to the Motorexpo car show in the heart of London's bank...
DATE: Jun 13, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — MBIA Inc., the biggest bond insurer, rose 9.5 percent after saying it may use $900 million to start a new insurance company, buy back stock or pay shareholders a special dividend.
MBIA said in February that the money would go t...
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) - Boeing Co. sought $1.9 billion in "unjustified" payments on US military contracts, according to a Pentagon audit.
Boeing's claim was based on a Labour Department index that triggers increased payments to defense contractors a...
DATE: Jun 13, 2008
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Bermuda's straining infrastructure may be the major threat to the future growth prospects of the Island's insurance market, according to a top executive.
XL Re chief executive officer Greg Hendrick told the audience at the Insurance Day Summit this w...
DATE: Jun 13, 2008
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Jonathan Kent
Kleenex, Häagen-Dazs and tinned cream were just some of the items Bermudians listed off when asked if prices had gone up on their grocery bills.
As part of The Royal Gazette's series looking at how international economic factors are impacting your wa...
DATE: Jun 13, 2008
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LONDON (AP) - British mortgage lenders yesterday reported lending increased modestly for April over the month before but declined from a year ago, and a separate government report underlined the deep slump in the country's housing sector.
The Council...
DATE: Jun 13, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street gave up a big early advance yesterday as the price of oil rose, with stocks closing moderately higher but demonstrating how anxious investors are about inflation and the overall health of the economy.
Word late in the sess...
DATE: Jun 13, 2008
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