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Time-starved and resource-scare business people and companies are set to benefit from a new corporate concierge service, which is officially launched next month.
Corporate Concierge Bermuda offers an independent corporate and personal concierge servi...
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown, responding to concerns about a growing wealth gap in the UK, said the statutory minimum wage will rise to £5.73 ($11.34) per hour from October.
"This will be a 60 percent rise on the original minimum ...
DATE: Mar 06, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO Lloyd Blankfein said the credit-market contraction that started with sub-prime mortgages is at least halfway over.
"We're not in the ninth inning by any means, we're maybe two-thirds through, a half...
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LONDON (AP) - British Airways said yesterday that passenger traffic rose 5.3 percent in February, led by a 15.1 percent increase in premium traffic.
The airline's load factor rose 0.6 percentage point to 68.4 percent, and capacity was up by 4.4 perce...
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) - Fidelity Investments, the world's largest mutual-fund company, will pay $8 million to settle US regulatory claims it let staff members accept Super Bowl tickets, private-jet travel and other gifts from brokers.
Fidelity faile...
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) - Canadian stocks gained for the first time in four days as record commodity prices boosted the earnings prospects of such oil and gas and raw-materials producers as Canadian Oil Sands Trust and Barrick Gold Corp.
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Digicel has added a new cell site in the Eve's Hill Area that it hopes will improve the quality of its network in the Pembroke area.
"Residents in the surrounding areas including the Spanish Point Area, Admiralty House Mills Creek, Fairy Lands, Pitt...
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The importance of fractional ownership to Bermuda's economy has been highlighted by the development at Tucker's Point Club.
The $350 million, 200-acre development, which includes a residence club, estate and town homes, villas, a hotel and spa, golf,...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Crude oil rose above $104 a barrel to a record in New York after Opec gave no indication it will increase production, US fuel inventories declined and Venezuela sent tanks to its border with Colombia.
The Organisation of Petrol...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Moody's Investors Service may lower Bermuda-based Security Capital Assurance Ltd.'s debt ratings and those of its operating subsidiaries after the bond insurer delayed filing its 10-K statement and said it may add a "going conc...
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