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Infant tweets? Well actually Twoddling. What is this technologically laden world coming to? Yet I must admit, of the five presentations I saw earlier this month of Belgium internet business start-ups perhaps the most interesting - if impractical - wa...
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West End residents had the chance to have their say at an Economic Empowerment Zone (EEZ) meeting held by the Bermuda Small Business Development Corporation (BSBDC) yesterday evening.
The meeting, which focused on the establishment of an EEZ in the W...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — McDonald's Corp., the world's largest restaurant company, said global sales rose 0.7 percent in November, missing analysts' estimates.
Sales at US stores open at least 13 months fell 0.6 percent, while Europe climbed 2.5 percen...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An International Monetary Fund team will visit Dubai in coming weeks to look closer at the economic impact of the Dubai World debt crisis and actions needed to resolve it, a senior IMF official said.
In an interview with Reuter...
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The Cayman Islands government has addressed its struggling financial situation through its first-ever bond issue, backed by HSBC Bank.
Premier Hon. McKeeva Bush told Cayman Net News that the $312 million raised would help to complete its schools proj...
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Validus Reinsurance Ltd. has been granted permission by the Monetary Authority of Singapore to operate a branch reinsurer underwriting general reinsurance business in Singapore.
The branch will be headed by Marc Haushofer, who joined Validus in Septe...
DATE: Dec 09, 2009
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Bermuda Press (Holdings) Ltd. rose 50 cents (4.54 percent) on The Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
The publisher closed the day at $11.50 with 1,000 shares traded.
Other traders included Butterfield Bank, which saw 9,025 common shares an...
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A record seven Bermudians cleared the toughest hurdle on the road to becoming a Chartered Accountant by passing the Uniform Final Examination (UFE) this year.
The seven, in addition to three Canadians working on the Island, learned they had passed la...
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The feature unveiled pn Monday represents Google Inc.'s most significant step yet in the field of "real-time" search - a catch phrase for the torrent of information constantly being shared on blogs and the personal pages of social-networking sites su...
DATE: Dec 09, 2009
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Bermuda's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 4.6 percent during 2008, according to the latest figures released by Government, as the economic crisis began to take effect.
The Department of Statistics report revealed that GDP, which measures the tot...
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