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An advance by Butterfield Bank drove the Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange up 13.32 points (0.26 percent) to 5,096.94.
Shares in Butterfield Bank improved by 25 cents (0.4 percent) to $59 after 5,321 were traded. Shares of Bermuda Commercial Ban...
DATE: Mar 29, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke chided investors who may have looked past long-standing concerns about inflation after recent comments from the central bank.
The Dow Jones industrials fell nearly 100 points, th...
DATE: Mar 29, 2007
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Poorly written Justice Department documents cost the federal government more than $100 million in what was supposed to have been the crowning moment of the biggest tax prosecution ever.Walter Anderson, the telecommunications entrepr...
DATE: Mar 29, 2007
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - US stocks fell after a weak consumer confidence report fuelled concerns the housing slowdown could spread into the broader economy and hurt profits.Lennar, a major US home builder, scrapped its 2007 outlook as it posted a 73.4 pe...
DATE: Mar 28, 2007
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NEW YORK (Reuters) — Tyco International Ltd. is about to get a whole lot smaller.With its planned breakup into three publicly-traded companies a few weeks away, investors are trying to figure out how to value the conglomerate.
Some large shareholders...
DATE: Mar 28, 2007
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Bank of Bermuda is cutting 38 jobs as a result of a decision to discontinue a number of alternative investment business lines.
The Island's biggest private employer, with 1,138 staff, has announced the axe is to fall on the positions beginning in Jun...
DATE: Mar 28, 2007
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For a different slant on the world, try Conservapedia, an online encyclopedia set up for those “tired of the Liberal bias every time (they) search on Google and a Wikipedia page appears”.
The site was started up in November, 2006, by with the rallyin...
DATE: Mar 28, 2007
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HAMMERFEST, Norway (AP) — Barren and uninhabited, Hans Island is very hard to find on a map.Yet these days the Frisbee-shaped rock in the Arctic is much in demand — so much so that Canada and Denmark have both staked their claim to it with flags and ...
DATE: Mar 28, 2007
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Bermuda-based MetLife International Insurance is being bought by Northstar Financial Services (Bermuda).
MetLife International is a subsidiary of MetLife, a leading provider of insurance and financial services with operations in the US and Latin Amer...
DATE: Mar 28, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Delta Air Lines Inc., offering a glimpse of its plans after bankruptcy, will post its first annual profit this year since 2000 and be “an acquirer” in the future, chief executive officer Gerald Grinstein said.Delta’s costs will...
DATE: Mar 28, 2007
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