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NEW YORK (Reuters) - US stocks mostly rose yesterday, with the Dow and S&P rebounding late in the day to end higher as surging oil prices lifted energy stocks and offset a sell-off in technology shares on bets that the slowing economy will sap consum...
DATE: Mar 07, 2009
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The Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act bill introduced by Senator Carl Levin earlier this week is a refinement - that now contains powerful new tools to combat offshore tax abuse - of an earlier attempt in 2007 that did not pass into law. In the two years sinc...
DATE: Mar 07, 2009
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's key stock index fell yesterday as early strength credited to a better-than-expected US jobs report faded as investors accepted that the big job losses in the report underscored the severity of the economic downturn.
Afte...
DATE: Mar 07, 2009
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) remained unchanged for the second straight day yesterday, opening and closing at 2,704.3.
A total of 9,050 shares worth $85,577.5 were traded during the course of the day.
Utilities was the busiest...
DATE: Mar 07, 2009
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BF&M Ltd.'s majority-owned Insurance Corporation of Barbados (ICB) Ltd. is holding talks with the Government of Barbados in a bid to take over the operations of troubled CLICO International Life.
John Wight, president and CEO of BF&M, said that he wa...
DATE: Mar 06, 2009
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The impact of women's economic empowerment and leadership needs to be used to rebuild the global economy in the wake of the current financial crisis.
That is according to a report entitled Groundbreakers: Using the Strength of Women to Rebuild the Wo...
DATE: Mar 06, 2009
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NEW YORK (AP) - Investors fled Wall Street again, driven by worries about the nation's big banks and General Motors Corp. (GM).
Stocks ended at 12-year lows yesterday, more than wiping out the previous day's rally. Investors wrestled with more dishea...
DATE: Mar 06, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Tyco Electronics Ltd., the world's biggest maker of electronic connectors, said it told "a number" of workers in North America today that their jobs would be cut as part of an ongoing effort to slash 20 percent of the company's...
DATE: Mar 06, 2009
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ingersoll-Rand Co will ask its shareholders for approval to move its incorporation from Bermuda to Ireland, the maker of climate control equipment said yesterday.
Such a move would take advantage of Ireland's membership in the Eu...
DATE: Mar 06, 2009
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Ironshore Inc. has appointed Mitch Blaser as CEO of Ironshore Bermuda.
Mr. Blaser, who has been with the insurance company since its launch in January 2007, was a key player in the core management team who, along with Bob Deutsch and John Clements, f...
DATE: Mar 06, 2009
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