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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index shot higher yesterday after an OECD report said the global economic outlook has improved for the first time in two years.
The TSX index's financial group led the index higher with a gain of 2.74 percent ...
DATE: Jun 25, 2009
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve yesterday stuck to its huge programme of buying government and mortgage debt and said it saw signs that the deep US recession was easing.
The Fed — the US central bank, keeping interest rates at nearly zero,...
DATE: Jun 25, 2009
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Butterfield Bank's new preference shares have started trading - and some investors have already cashed them in at a 12 percent profit.
Investors originally paid $1,000 for the preference shares earlier this month, but their closing price on the Bermu...
DATE: Jun 25, 2009
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LONDON (AP) — British homewares retailer Habitat apologised yesterday after ads for the store appeared on Twitter tagged with words linked to the Iranian election crisis.
Some Twitter users became angry after the upmarket store's messages turned up i...
DATE: Jun 25, 2009
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Lancashire Insurance Co. Ltd. and Lancashire Insurance Co. (UK) Ltd. have been affirmed the financial strength rating of A- (excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of "a-" by AM Best. The outlook for all ratings is stable. The rating agency said ...
DATE: Jun 25, 2009
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ST. JOHN'S, Antigua (AP) — Antigua and Barbuda fired its chief financial regulator Tuesday night, four days after US prosecutors charged that he accepted more than $100,000 in bribes to help Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford with an alleged $7 bill...
DATE: Jun 25, 2009
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PARIS (Reuters) - Britain's economy will shrink by 4.3 percent this year, its fastest pace of decline since World War Two, and stagnate in 2010, top international researchers said yesterday.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (...
DATE: Jun 25, 2009
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LONDON - Britain's leading share index closed up 1.2 percent as heavyweight miners and banks were buoyed by better US economic data, offsetting weaker food retailers and producers. The FTSE 100 closed at 4,279.98 points, up 49.96 or 1.18 percent.
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DATE: Jun 25, 2009
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Facebook, MySpace and Twitter are well known as the largest social networking sites in North America. But have you heard of Bebo, Orkut, Hi5, Mixi, Cyworld, Imeem, Friendster and QQ, the mother of all social networking sites?
These sites are more pop...
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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The Bank of Bermuda was reportedly due to make eight of its staff redundant this week as a result of the impact of the economic downturn, The Royal Gazette understands.
A source close to the bank claimed that it would lay off the employees over that ...
DATE: Jun 24, 2009
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