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It proved to be a day of gains on the Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX), with Argus Group Holdings Ltd. and BELCO Holdings Ltd. both boosting their share prices yesterday.
Argus increased its share value by $1 (0.06 percent), to close ...
DATE: Jan 25, 2008
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One of the most important aspects of the IT sector is to stay on the cutting edge of technology and one step ahead of the competition.
And that is exactly what Applied Computer Technologies (ACT) has been striving to do for the past 25 years it has b...
DATE: Jan 25, 2008
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index was strongly higher yesterday, pulled up by gains by Potash Corp of Saskatchewan and robust resource issues amid firm commodity prices.
The index also reaped continued benefits from interest...
DATE: Jan 25, 2008
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PARIS (AP) - French bank Societe Generale said yesterday it has uncovered a 4.9-billion euro ($7.14 billion) fraud - one of history's biggest - by a single futures trader whose scheme of fictitious transactions was discovered as stock markets began t...
DATE: Jan 25, 2008
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DETROIT (AP) - General Motors Corp. (GM) is in danger of losing its 76-year title as the world's sales leader, as totals for 2007 released yesterday showed the automaker in a virtual tie with Toyota Motor Corp.
GM said it sold 9,369,524 vehicles worl...
DATE: Jan 24, 2008
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XL Capital Ltd. announced last night that it expects to post a fourth-quarter loss of up to $1.2 billion, mostly due to costs related to its investment in a bond insurer Security Capital Assurance (SCA).
The insurer and reinsurer owns 46 percent of S...
DATE: Jan 24, 2008
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Butterfield Bank and Bermuda Aviation Services (BAS) both lost out on the Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
The bank dropped 20 cents (1.1 percent) to close at $17.50, with 60.820 shares traded.
BAS declined by the same amou...
DATE: Jan 24, 2008
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - Conde Nast Publications Inc. won a bid to force the UK government to return £115,000 ($225,000) in overpaid taxes in a court ruling that will allow other companies to seek millions more.
The House of Lords, the UK's highest court...
DATE: Jan 24, 2008
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - UK general-retail stocks were raised to "positive" by analysts at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., who said the shares offer value following declines.
Lehman analyst Fraser Ramzan boosted his recommendation on Home Retail Group plc...
DATE: Jan 24, 2008
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LONDON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - British interest rates are likely to come down next month to safeguard the economy but aggressive cuts of the kind announced by the US Federal Reserve are not on the cards, the Bank of England signalled yesterday.
Minutes o...
DATE: Jan 24, 2008
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