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Bermudians have been called on by one of the Island's biggest department stores to dig deep and support their local economy in a bid to arrest the latest series of alarming retail sales figures.
Retailers suffered more misery as the retail sales volu...
DATE: Jul 16, 2009
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LONDON - Strong US corporate results and improving US economic data lifted Britain's top share index by 2.6 percent to its highest close in four weeks.
Led by energy firms and banks, the FTSE 100 index ended up 108.78 points at 4,346.46, its third da...
DATE: Jul 16, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Intel Corp. rose the most in four months in Nasdaq trading after its revenue forecast topped analysts' estimates, indicating that shoppers in Asia are helping reignite demand for personal computers.
Sales will be as much as $8....
DATE: Jul 16, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based XL Capital Group Ltd., American International Group Inc. and insurers at Lloyd's of London are among firms that may face a combined total of more than $100 million in claims tied to the Washington Metro crash that...
DATE: Jul 16, 2009
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) - Canadian stocks gained for a third day, the longest winning streak in two weeks, as energy and gold producers climbed with commodity prices and technology companies surged after Intel Corp.'s earnings topped forecasts.
Kinross G...
DATE: Jul 16, 2009
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The US Treasury Department wants to find a "responsible" way to provide government aid to troubled lender CIT Group Inc, Representative Barney Frank said yesterday.
"I've spoken with (Treasury) Secretary Geithner, and I underst...
DATE: Jul 16, 2009
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TRENTON, New Jersey (AP) — Health care products maker Johnson & Johnson yesterday said its second-quarter profit fell 3.5 percent, as the global recession, weak dollar and generic competition took their toll on sales, particularly for prescription dr...
DATE: Jul 15, 2009
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NEW YORK (Dow Jones) — Property/casualty insurers will get a welcomed boost to their second-quarter earnings thanks to the rally in the bond and stock markets last quarter. On Friday, Progressive Corp. reported that second-quarter earnings rose 16% o...
DATE: Jul 15, 2009
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An expert in financial crime is to be the keynote speaker at the Bermuda Compliance Summit in late September.
Dr. Chizu Nakajima, director of the Centre for Financial Regulation at the Cass Business School, City University, London, will speak at the ...
DATE: Jul 15, 2009
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Motorists will be able to test their alcohol levels before getting behind the wheel thanks to a new breathalyser product launched by Trade & Industry Services Ltd.
The AlcoSense Breathalyser, which works on the same principles as Police breathalysers...
DATE: Jul 15, 2009
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