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SEOUL (Bloomberg) — A Lazard Ltd. fund and a shareholder activist convinced South Korea's Taekwang Group to reorganise into a holding company as part of corporate governance reforms, triggering a surge in shares of the industrial group's units.As par...
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HONG KONG (Bloomberg) — Pacific Century Insurance Holdings Ltd. will buy an office building in Hong Kong from Bermuda-registered Hongkong Land Holdings Ltd. for HK$1.47 billion ($189 million).The building, with a gross floor area of about 290,000 squ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street resumed its fourth-quarter rally yesterday, pushing the Dow Jones industrials to its first close above 12,400 after a series of strong company earnings and a drop in unemployment claims revived investors’ confidence in the...
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A new personal lending centre was officially opened yesterday by the Bank of Bermuda.
The opening coincided with the launch of the first in a series of mortgage products being introduced by the Bank.
Bank of Bermuda chief executive officer Philip But...
DATE: Dec 15, 2006
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NEW YORK — Online and traditional retailers are taking aim at the bane of their holiday sales — procrastinators.You know the type. Last minute lollygaggers who have put off their holiday shopping either to wait for desperation sales by retailers or b...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — US retail sales rose 3.9 percent last week, trailing an overall holiday forecast, as consumers delayed shopping until closer to Christmas, ShopperTrak RCT Corp. said.The 3.9 percent year-over-year sales gain for the week throug...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — UBS AG was sued by New York state over allegations that Europe’s largest bank defrauded thousands of brokerage clients out of tens of millions of dollars by steering them into costly accounts they didn’t need.Attorney General E...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fans of the popular US TV show "Desperate Housewives" may be dying to discuss last night's episode, but the odds are that their friends and co-workers watched something else.As technology makes production, storage and distributio...
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PARIS (Reuters) — Britain on Wednesday claimed a French U-turn on a plan to fight value added tax (VAT) fraud as authorities in Paris investigated suspected rackets reported to have cut revenues by up to 19 billion euros ($25.22 billion).The French g...
DATE: Dec 15, 2006
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A new personal lending centre was officially opened yesterday by the Bank of Bermuda.
The opening coincided with the launch of the first in a series of mortgage products being introduced by the Bank.
Bank of Bermuda chief executive officer Philip But...
DATE: Dec 15, 2006
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CATEGORY:
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
