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THE next time somebody asks you what’s hot in the stock market, whisper “Old Europe”.That will give your interrogator something different to think about. And it will pack the added punch of being true.
The pound breaks $2! The euro trades near record...
DATE: Apr 21, 2007
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Dozens of new shareholder-owned insurance companies set up shop in the British Virgin Islands last year, joining a growing list of US insurers seeking to avoid taxes and regulation in their homeland, officials said yester...
DATE: Apr 20, 2007
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The Royal Gazette Bermuda Stock Exchange Index soared one percent yesterday to close the week just 15 points short of an all-time high.
Butterfield Bank was the driving force behind yesterday’s advance, as its shares surged $1 (1.7 percent) on the sa...
DATE: Apr 20, 2007
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SHANGHAI, China (AP) — Physicist Shi Zhengrong spent the 1990s in an Australian lab studying solar power, a field he picked by chance. He expected to devote his life to science.Still, Shi saw signs of a blossoming industry as Germany, Japan and other...
DATE: Apr 20, 2007
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BEIJING (Reuters) — China’s economy grew at a blistering 11.1 percent annual pace in the first quarter on the back of booming investment and exports, fuelling speculation that interest rates would need to rise again soon.The growth rate announced yes...
DATE: Apr 20, 2007
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) — China’s yuan hit a post-revaluation high, bond yields jumped and stocks tumbled yesterday as markets reacted to the prospect that rising inflation could prompt interest rates to climb faster.A jump in March consumer price inflati...
DATE: Apr 20, 2007
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Businesses in New York, London and Brussels are struggling to buy insurance against terrorist attacks at affordable prices as demand for the policies rises world-wide, according to insurance brokerage company Aon Corp.Businesses ...
DATE: Apr 20, 2007
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NEW YORK (Reuters) — A sharp drop in classified advertising sales brought on by free internet listings and a cooling real estate market helped push US newspaper publishers’ financial results lower in the first quarter.Gannett Co. Inc., New York Times...
DATE: Apr 20, 2007
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A US division of Bermuda-based Ace Ltd. yesterday announced the creation of the Ace USA Mergers & Acquisitions Industry Practice, which will concentrate on both private equity groups and strategic mergers & acquisitions.
Seth Gillston has been named ...
DATE: Apr 20, 2007
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WASHINGTON (AP) — World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz is offering to make management changes at the institution in an effort to hold on to his job, officials close to the situation said yesterday.The overture — which came during a meeting of bank vic...
DATE: Apr 20, 2007
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