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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks rose, lifting the main stock benchmark to its seventh record this month, as energy companies including EnCana climbed along with oil prices.BCE gained on a report that there may be another bidder for Canada's big...
DATE: May 18, 2007
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Shares in only one company were traded on the Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange and did not affect the Index as it remained at 5,132.17 points.
A total of 6,195 shares of Butterfield Bank, worth $371,700, were exchanged but did not affect the cl...
DATE: May 18, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — American International Group Inc., the world's largest insurer, said a $317 million fund established under a legal settlement may not be enough to cover its costs for shortchanging state workers' compensation programmes.A natio...
DATE: May 18, 2007
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Shareholders of Ace Limited are in line for an improved dividend pay out after the company's board of directors voted to lift the quarterly dividend from 25 cents to 27 cents per ordinary share.
Last year Ace, Bermuda's biggest reinsurance company, m...
DATE: May 18, 2007
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — An internal watchdog sharply criticised the International Monetary Fund yesterday for failures in its core duty of foreign exchange market surveillance, but the IMF said that steps were being taken.The report by the Independent...
DATE: May 18, 2007
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CHICAGO (Bloomberg) — JetBlue Airways Corp.'s credit rating was cut further into junk status by Moody's Investors Service, after the low-cost carrier posted losses for all of 2006 and this year's first quarter.The corporate rating was lowered one ste...
DATE: May 18, 2007
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — US airlines may be forced to increase public disclosure of instances when passengers get stuck in planes on runways, after a rash of those incidents.The disclosure would include delays that occur after a plane leaves a gate a...
DATE: May 18, 2007
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LONDON (Reuters) — British interest rates will probably need to rise one more time in the next few months if inflation is to hit the Bank of England's 2 percent target in two years, the central bank signalled yesterday.In its quarterly Inflation Repo...
DATE: May 17, 2007
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The panache of the city that never sleeps is coming to Sin City.The owner of The Plaza hotel in New York announced plans yesterday to buy the New Frontier hotel-casino and develop a $5 billion multi-use complex on what it called "the...
DATE: May 17, 2007
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LONDON - The FTSE 100 index of Britain's leading shares ended down after fluctuating in and out of positive territory, supported by M&A activity but weighed on by property shares and retailer Next.
The FTSE 100 closed at 6,559.5 points, down 9.1 or 0...
DATE: May 17, 2007
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