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SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) — Intel Corp., the world's largest computer-chip maker, began selling a faster processor designed to attract computer gamers to portable machines.The Core 2 Extreme mobile processor is 28 percent faster than the previous top...
DATE: Jul 18, 2007
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NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) — Citigroup Global Markets agreed to pay nearly $1 million to settle state allegations that a failure to supervise two of its Smith Barney agents and maintain accurate records cost investors more than $3 million, state authori...
DATE: Jul 17, 2007
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City-goers will be able to more conveniently squeeze a check-up into their working day or during their shopping expeditions thanks to a new medical centre which is set to open in the centre of Hamilton later this year.
The former Monte Carlo restaura...
DATE: Jul 17, 2007
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LONDON — Britain's FTSE 100 index fell, as Lonmin cut its full-year sales forecast, knocking miners off their feet, while heavyweight Royal Dutch Shell suffered a downgrade. The FTSE 100 closed at 6,697.7 points, down 19 or 0.28 percent.ROUNDUP:EUROF...
DATE: Jul 17, 2007
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LONDON (Reuters) — A UK court fined Cadbury Schweppes, the world's largest confectionery group, [POUNDSTERLING]1 million ($2 million) yesterday for selling unsafe chocolate in Britain and Ireland during 2006 in a salmonella health scare.Cadbury, whic...
DATE: Jul 17, 2007
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Bermuda reinsurer IPC Holdings yesterday announced last night that second-quarter 2007 earnings will be hit by the storms and flooding that affected New South Wales, Australia in early June, and by the flooding in parts of northern England last month...
DATE: Jul 17, 2007
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Bermuda-based wireless service provider Digicel has come up with a new system that will allow US and Canada residents credit the cell phone accounts of their less well-off friends and relatives in Haiti.
Living in the poorest country in the western h...
DATE: Jul 17, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Genpact Ltd., a computer services company spun off by General Electric Co. in 2004, boosted the amount it plans to raise in an initial public offering to as much as $731 million.The company expects to sell 17.6 mi...
DATE: Jul 17, 2007
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks fell, led by energy producers including Cameco Corp., as investors speculated uranium shares are overpriced and natural gas futures in New York dropped the most in almost a month.Cameco, the world's largest urani...
DATE: Jul 17, 2007
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LONDON (Reuters) — The number of profit warnings in Britain leaped 13 percent in the first half compared with the same period last year, amid higher interest rates and sluggish sales, accountancy firm Ernst & Young said yesterday.British quoted compa...
DATE: Jul 17, 2007
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