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LONDON (Bloomberg) - Dominion Petroleum Ltd., a Bermuda-based explorer drilling for oil in Africa, began a 2D-seismic survey on part of its production sharing agreement areas in Tanzania.
Upstream Petroleum Services Ltd. is conducting the geological ...
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ALBANY, New York (AP) - MySpace reached an agreement with legal authorities in 49 states on changing its social networking website to help prevent sexual predators and others from misusing it, state officials said yesterday.
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Reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter & Company LLC yesterday announced that it will be opening an office in Prague on March 1, to further develop business and serve clients based or conducting business in the Czech and Slovak Republics.
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LONDON (AP) — Shares in Northern Rock PLC slumped more than four percent yesterday amid increasing speculation that the troubled mortgage lender will be nationalised, rather than sold off to a private investor.
Stepping up pressure on Northern Rock a...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - IBM reported a better-than-expected 24 percent rise in preliminary quarterly earnings yesterday on strong sales in overseas markets, driving its shares up six percent and spurring a broader tech rally.
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LAGOS, Nigeria (Bloomberg) - Continental Reinsurance plc., a Nigerian company that underwrites risks for insurers, said nine-month profit more than doubled.
Net income rose to 657.8 million naira ($5.6 million) in the nine months through September 30...
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Butterfield Bank is set to repurchase up to three million ordinary shares valued at $1 each over the next year.
The Bank advised the Bermuda Stock Exchange of its intention to do so, starting at the beginning of January.
As at November 30, 2007, thre...
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BOSTON (Bloomberg) - US existing home sales will fall 13 percent this year before recovering in 2009, according to a forecast by the Mortgage Bankers Association, the industry's largest trade group.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Annual British factory-gate inflation rose to a fresh 16-year high in December as food price inflation hit a record high and oil prices continued to climb, official data showed yesterday.
The Office for National Statistics said out...
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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - A former chief executive who oversaw the multi-million dollar collapse of one of Australia's largest insurance companies was released from prison yesterday.
Ray Williams, 71, pleaded guilty in 2004 to three counts stemming fr...
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