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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks plunged yesterday as investors, nervous about upcoming earnings reports, cringed at troubling forecasts from retailers Home Depot and Sears and at soaring oil prices. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 148 points.The market ...
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BATH, Maine (AP) — Stung by cost overruns, the US Navy is looking to return to a past when it controlled the shipbuilding process from beginning to end.The change follows a period when the Navy told shipyards what it wanted the ships to do and then l...
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LONDON — The UK's leading shares fell 1.2 percent, as European stocks buckled under macroeconomic concerns after US firms Home Depot, Sears Holdings and D.R. Horton warned on profits. Miners were the day's biggest losers, shaving 22 points off the in...
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DALLAS (AP) — D.R. Horton Inc. will post a loss for the spring quarter after net orders fell 40 percent and the value of unsold houses is written down, the US homebuilder said yesterday, further evidence that the housing sector continues to sink.Hort...
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Budding young entrepreneurs will be able to get ahead in business thanks to an innovative training scheme running this summer.
The Youth Entrepreneurship Initiative of Bermuda's BizCamp programme allows youngsters aged 13 to 18 to develop their busin...
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Lazard Ltd., the merger-advisory business led by Bruce Wasserstein, agreed to buy Goldsmith Agio Helms & Lynner LLC to gain contacts with mid-sized private companies.
The purchase will be made with a combination of cash and stock, New York-based Laza...
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NEW YORK (AP) — As more and more tech toys evolve to include music-playing capabilities, gadget lovers face an increasingly common problem: How can you amplify them all without buying five different speaker docks?Lately, this has been a problem for m...
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Bermuda-based Seadrill has been awarded a letter of intent by a major oil company for international exploration activities with the deepwater semi-submersible drilling unit West Aquarius.
The contract has a firm duration of three years and estimated ...
DATE: Jul 11, 2007
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Peniston and Associates firm of barristers and attorneys vs. Maurice Anthony Hayden Cottle.
Between 1) Veronica Koren (as executrix of the estate of Michael Koren) 2) Angelia Helen Mocklow (as executrix of the estate of Stanley Moclow) 3) Ethel Dunst...
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KPMG is used to advising other companies on how to deal with disasters — but last month the firm tested its own readiness.
The firm sprang a surprise on most of its staff by launching a disaster recovery exercise on June 18 — only a few personnel kne...
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