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TORONTO (Dow Jones/AP) —Thomson Corp. has "no fear" of competing financial data service Bloomberg LP or the possibility that it may cut prices to pressure a newly merged Thomson-Reuters Group PLC, Thomson chairman David Thomson said yesterday."They a...
DATE: May 17, 2007
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Asset management company W.P. Stewart and Co Limited confirmed eight directors at its annual meeting held in Hamilton on Tuesday.
Chairman and CEO William Stewart has also thanked retiring board members Dominik Brunner and Jeremy Sillem for their con...
DATE: May 17, 2007
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Two stocks were active on the Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange on Wednesday, but the index only moved 0.66 points (0.01 percent) to 5,132.17
Shares of BF&M improved by five cents (0.05 percent) to $19 after 7,300 were traded.
the other active s...
DATE: May 17, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street gave up a huge advance and closed mixed after an unimpressive snapshot of the housing market unsettled investors. The Dow Jones industrials, which surpassed 13,400 early in the session, slipped back but still eked out a re...
DATE: May 16, 2007
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NEW YORK (Reuters) — Bermuda reinsurers, money burning a hole in their pockets after hefty 2006 earnings, are looking to expand into the Lloyd's of London insurance market, sources familiar with the situation said.Interest in joining Lloyd's, the wor...
DATE: May 16, 2007
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ROME (Bloomberg) — Italy's underground economy has swelled to "embarrassing" proportions and may be much larger than predicted, Deputy Finance Minister Vincenzo Visco said.The proportion of tax evasion in relation to gross domestic product in the nor...
DATE: May 16, 2007
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LONDON (AP) — Reuters agreed yesterday to a $17.2 billion takeover by Thomson that would vault the combined entity ahead of Bloomberg to become the world's largest financial data and news provider.The combined company will be headed by Tom Glocer, 47...
DATE: May 16, 2007
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GREAT success can be one of the thorniest problems an investment manager ever confronts. It's one thing to rack up nice returns when a strategy is new and the amount under management is small. The job may prove different after those early gains attra...
DATE: May 16, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — For all their complaining as they pay $3 a gallon or more to fill up their cars, few American drivers have yet to reach the point of cutting back.That's the message from government statistics showing that demand for gasoline is only j...
DATE: May 16, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — David Linsley's Sirius Investment Fund has raised $70 million since it started in February and seeks to outperform other hedge funds by investing with smaller managers.The so-called fund of funds aims to raise as much as $300 m...
DATE: May 16, 2007
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