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FRANKFURT (Reuters) — The European Central Bank kept interest rates steady at four percent yesterday and endorsed market expectations that a September hike is quite likely.ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet told a news conference he did not want to sh...
DATE: Jul 06, 2007
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The need to get more Bermudians involved in the world of insurance, which plays such a major role in driving the Island's economy, is a key aim of the Bermuda Foundation for Insurance Studies/Illinois State University Bermuda Intern Programme.
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DATE: Jul 06, 2007
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LONDON (Reuters) — A cave home with no electricity or water supply, which has not been lived in since 1948, has fetched $100,000 ($202,000) at auction.Rock Cottage, near Wolverley, Worcestershire, made four times the guide price of 25,000 pounds.
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DATE: Jul 06, 2007
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BEIJING (AP) — China denied yesterday it pressured the World Bank to cut data from a draft of an environmental report that allegedly found that pollution caused about 750,000 premature deaths nation-wide annually.The Financial Times reported on Monda...
DATE: Jul 06, 2007
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Argus Group Holdings was the only company to gain ground in trading on the Bermuda Stock Exchange yesterday.
The insurer's share price gained 25 cents (1.7 percent) to close on $15.25 after 3,000 shares changed hands.
Bermuda Commercial Bank Ltd. was...
DATE: Jul 06, 2007
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Application service provider eVolution has added four of the newest Microsoft suites to those it can offer small and mid-sized companies in Bermuda and around the world.
The company is currently short-listed in the 2007 Microsoft Partner Program Awar...
DATE: Jul 06, 2007
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Workers at Royal Mail Group Plc, the U.K.'s state-owned postal service, are planning a second strike as part of a dispute over pay and cost cuts.Royal Mail and Post Office Ltd. workers will walk off the job for 24 hours starting ...
DATE: Jul 06, 2007
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American Airlines said yesterday it will add four flights to London in a shift to London Heathrow Airport from Gatwick Airport.
American, the largest US carrier, said it would operate up to 20 daily round trips between the United States and London, i...
DATE: Jul 06, 2007
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Broadband internet access has now reached Pembroke through CableVision's Broadband Link service.
Customers in Hamilton and the surrounding areas can now get high-speed data service using CableVision's high-capacity, fibre-based broadband network.
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DATE: Jul 06, 2007
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LONDON (Reuters) — Sterling jumped to a 26-year high versus the dollar for a third day yesterday, vaulting $2.02 and showing no signs of vertigo so far against a broadly weak dollar that stayed near record lows versus the euro.The greenback, dogged b...
DATE: Jul 05, 2007
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