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LONDON (AP) - GlaxoSmithKline plc. will buy heart drug specialist Reliant Pharmaceuticals Inc. for $1.65 billion in cash, the company said on Wednesday.
GSK expects the transaction will add to earnings in 2008 and create additional value in following...
DATE: Nov 23, 2007
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - The market for derivatives grew at the fastest pace in at least nine years to $516 trillion in the first half of 2007, the Bank for International Settlements said.
Credit-default swaps, contracts designed to protect investors aga...
DATE: Nov 23, 2007
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Employment service company Expertise Limited has appointed Sarai Saints as general manager of its payroll services division.
The eight year-old company has made the appointment due to growth in payroll services.
Ms Saints, who joined the company in 2...
DATE: Nov 23, 2007
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When the mortgage lender Northern Rock Plc collapsed in September, and caused the first run on a bank in a developed country in living memory, it seemed possible to exonerate the British financial and political system.
After all, the crisis could be ...
DATE: Nov 23, 2007
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Capital G's customers realised the benefit of banking online - by winning iPods at a prize giving reception held at Capital G's offices on Wednesday.
Nine of the bank's clients proved to be the lucky recipients, with five iPod Nanos handed out to cus...
DATE: Nov 23, 2007
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london (Bloomberg) — Umbro Plc, the soccer-uniform maker being acquired by Nike Inc., and UK retailer Sports Direct International Plc said earnings will be hurt by England's failure to qualify for the 2008 European championship.
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DATE: Nov 23, 2007
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Butterfield Bank dropped five cents (0.3 percent) to close at $18.75 on the Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
A total of 2,942 shares were traded by the bank throughout the day.
The only other companies for whom shares chang...
DATE: Nov 22, 2007
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Utilico Emerging Markets is doing well in a testing time for emerging markets generally, according to chairman Alexander Zagoreos.
In common with previous periods, the portfolio has outperformed the MSCI EMF (Sterling adjusted) index.
The MSCI gained...
DATE: Nov 22, 2007
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SEATTLE/NEW YORK (PRNewswire via COMTEX) — If an influenza pandemic occurred this year, fewer than one-fifth of the approximately 13 billion vaccine doses needed to fully vaccinate the global population would be available within six months in a best-...
DATE: Nov 22, 2007
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They say nothing in life is free and that is certainly true if you are thinking about obtaining a copy of the 95-page Offshore Financial Services Databook 2007, which will set you back a princely $4,585.
For that you can read up on Bermuda (two pages...
DATE: Nov 22, 2007
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