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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The stock market will likely start the week on a hesitant note with Wall Street facing the first Federal Reserve interest-rate decision in many months not knowing that a cut is virtually guaranteed.
Sparks may fly, however, after...
DATE: Apr 28, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — The dollar rose the most against the euro in a month as traders increased bets that the Federal Reserve may stop cutting interest rates at its meeting next week and the European economy showed signs of a slowdown.
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DATE: Apr 28, 2008
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The impact of the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the continued softening of the insurance market will be among some of the hot topics on delegates' lips at the 2008 RIMS (Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc.) conference held in San Diego this we...
DATE: Apr 28, 2008
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LONDON (Reuters) - A pipeline carrying nearly half of Britain's oil was closed yesterday as a strike over pensions began at the neighbouring Grangemouth refinery in Scotland, operator BP (BP.L) said.
The refinery, owned by international chemical comp...
DATE: Apr 28, 2008
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How captives buy reinsurance and using reinsurance to protect your business will be the focus for a seminar hosted by one of Bermuda's top captive specialists at the 2008 RIMS (Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc.) conference in San Diego this ...
DATE: Apr 28, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based MF Global Ltd., the derivatives brokerage that lost $2 billion in market value since February, is seeking to sell $200 million of convertible debt to private equity firms, according to two people familiar with the...
DATE: Apr 28, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. chief executive officer Steve Ballmer may start a fight to oust Yahoo! Inc.'s board and pave the way for a takeover, after the Internet company let his deadline pass without agreeing to a deal.
Ballmer gave Yaho...
DATE: Apr 28, 2008
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MONTREAL (Reuters) - Fertilizer fever, surging oil prices, banks on the defensive and a downbeat central bank forecast for the Canadian economy are just some of the key issues that will dominate the Toronto stock market in the weeks ahead.
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DATE: Apr 28, 2008
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The Royal Gazette Bermuda Stock Exchange Index slipped 1.57 percent last week, as banking, insurance and utilities stocks all fell.
Butterfield Bank saw the heaviest trading, with 72,770 of its shares changing hands. In the week that the Bank announc...
DATE: Apr 28, 2008
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Butterfield Bank announced first-quarter earnings of $36.3 million on Friday — an increase of 1.8 percent compared to the same period last year.
Alan Thompson, the Bank's president and chief executive officer, said he was pleased with the performance...
DATE: Apr 28, 2008
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