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SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) - Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs, seeking to sell 10 million iPhones this year, added business features to woo customers from the BlackBerry and will let outside developers create programs for the handset.
Apple will push corpora...
DATE: Mar 07, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks tumbled yesterday as the ailing credit market and a spike in home foreclosures intensified the market's worries about a sagging economy. The Dow Jones industrials gave up 214 points.
Concerns about credit grew after Thornburg M...
DATE: Mar 07, 2008
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — The UK government risks fumbling its response to the run on Northern Rock Plc and should take more time when drafting rules to prevent a reoccurrence, said Richard Lambert, head of the Confederation of British Industry.
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DATE: Mar 07, 2008
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Peloton Partners LLP, a London-based hedge fund manager that formerly held nearly $3 billion in assets, is liquidating its two funds and shutting down, the firm told investors on Wednesday, according to two people familiar with t...
DATE: Mar 07, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) - Bermuda-based Ingersoll-Rand Co. said it expects full-year earnings from continuing operations to come in above analysts' estimates.
The diversified manufacturer still anticipates 2008 net income in a range of $3.80 to $3.90 per share...
DATE: Mar 07, 2008
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Belco Holdings Ltd. boosted its share price by $1.30 (6.4 percent) to close up at $21.50 on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
The utilities company traded 1,250 shares throughout the day.
Other traders included Butterfie...
DATE: Mar 07, 2008
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Bermuda International Shipping Ltd. marked its 1,000th voyage yesterday — but the future may not look so bright as it remains unclear if Hamilton's cargo docks will be moved.
Over the years Henry Hayward, president of BISL's shipping agent Meyer Frei...
DATE: Mar 07, 2008
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Alea Group Holdings Ltd. announced a loss of $78.2 million for 2007 yesterday — but the boss of the Bermuda reinsurer believes that the results will mark a positive turn-around in the company's fortunes.
One-time charges on policy claims and redempti...
DATE: Mar 07, 2008
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pending sales of previously owned homes were unchanged in January, according to a better-than-expected reading from a real estate trade group report yesterday that points to the possibility of some stability for the beleaguered...
DATE: Mar 07, 2008
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Billionaires are abound with interests in Bermuda according to the latest list published by Forbes magazine.
Among one of the top richest people on the World's Billionaires List is New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, 66, who owns a Tucker's Town proper...
DATE: Mar 07, 2008
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