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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Close to half of affluent US investors see the stock market as a buy, with energy as the industry and Asia as the region to be in.
The annual Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll of investors found that 44 percent of those with hou...
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Apple Inc unveiled its largest US store yesterday, a glass-facade building sheathed in steel that a senior company official said reflects Apple's plans to expand retail ventures at home and abroad.
Sandwiched between aging brick bu...
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Bermuda Comercial Bank Ltd. saw it's shares drop in value 10 percent yesterday on the trading of 5,000 shares. The loss left the shares worth $9 at the close.
BF&M Ltd. and Bank of N.T. Butterfield Ltd. also saw their shares decrease in value, but by...
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Property losses resulting from the earthquake that shook China this week could total between $10 billion and $20 billion, according to the early analysis of two of the world's leading catastrophe modelling firms — but only a fraction of that cost wil...
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SAO PAULO (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based GP Investments Ltd., the largest Latin American private-equity firm, plans to raise a fifth fund for buy-outs that might be its biggest, Valor Economico said, citing Financial vice-president Allan Hadid.
GP has a...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - American International Group (AIG) chairman Robert Willumstad said yesterday the giant global insurer's directors stand behind management, including chief executive Martin Sullivan, fending off concerns raised by investors frustr...
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LONDON (AP) — Tesco PLC, the largest grocer in the United Kingdom, substantially boosted its presence in South Korea with $1.87 billion acquisition of 36 Homever stores, including debt.
Tesco would not break out how much of the purchase price was mad...
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LONDON (Reuters) - The British economy could shrink for a quarter or two and inflation may near four percent this year, the Bank of England said yesterday in its bleakest forecasts since the Labour government took power in 1997.
Economists said the e...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street advanced yesterday after a better-than-expected report on consumer prices tempered some of the market's concerns about inflation.
The Labour Department's report that consumer prices advanced 0.2 percent in April after risi...
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