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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks rose, sending the benchmark index to another record, after Rio Tinto offered to buy aluminium maker Alcan Inc. for $38.1 billion, fuelling takeover speculation concerning other materials stocks.A five-year rally ...
DATE: Jul 13, 2007
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LONDON (Reuters) — The container vessel MSC Napoli will be beached off the coast of southern England after inspections showed she had a three-metre wide crack in her hull, salvagers said yesterday.The vessel was floated on Monday so divers could eval...
DATE: Jul 13, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street soared yesterday, propelling the Standard & Poor's 500 index and Dow Jones industrials to record highs as bright spots among generally sluggish retail sales allowed investors to toss aside concerns about the health of the ...
DATE: Jul 13, 2007
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Belco Holdings Ltd. was the only company to gain ground on a quiet day's trading on the Bermuda Stock Exchange yesterday.
Belco climbed 25 cents (1.3 percent) to end the day on $20.25, though the energy provider was still near the lower end of its 52...
DATE: Jul 13, 2007
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LONDON — Britain's top share index fell as high oil prices and worries over US subprime mortgages dented sentiment but Whitbread and BSkyB sparkled. The FTSE 100 closed at 6615.1 points, down 15.8 or 0.24 percent.ROUNDUP:EUROFIRSTEUROPE — European st...
DATE: Jul 12, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — It used to be that a full-service apartment building in New York meant a doorman, a roof garden, maybe a gym.These days, the can-you-top-this amenities include chic screening rooms; covered dog runs; golf simulators where you can prac...
DATE: Jul 12, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street bounced back yesterday from its sharp decline a day earlier, boosted by takeover activity ahead of second-quarter earnings reports.Investors shaken by profit warnings earlier in the week appeared to be cautiously optimisti...
DATE: Jul 12, 2007
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index ended higher yesterday as renewed takeover talk surrounding Alcan Inc. drove up metals and mining issues, which have gained in seven of the past eight sessions.The S&P/TSX composite index cl...
DATE: Jul 12, 2007
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SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Marvell Technology Group Ltd., which restated results earlier this month by $327.4 million after an investigation found that it had backdated stock options, said interim chief financial officer Michael Tate r...
DATE: Jul 12, 2007
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Butterfield Bank's share value took a sharp upturn, rising by 50 cents (0.8 percent) to close on $61, trading 382 shares yesterday.
Of the other listed companies only BF&M Ltd saw any activity with 61 shares being traded, but the price remained stabl...
DATE: Jul 12, 2007
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