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LONDON (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp is freezing pay and management bonuses at its UK car-making operations in 2009, the company said yesterday, as carmakers grapple with a sharp downturn in global demand.
The Japanese auto maker said Toyota Manufact...
DATE: Feb 19, 2009
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Banking giant UBS has agreed to pay $780 million and turn over once-secret Swiss banking records to settle allegations it conspired to defraud the US government of taxes owed by big clients.
As part of the deal struck in federal cou...
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Weatherford International Ltd. announced yesterday that its shareholders have approved its proposed re-domestication from Bermuda to Switzerland. In connection with the re-domestication Weatherford plans to relocate its principal executive offices fr...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Investors took scant comfort yesterday from the government's plans to revive the housing market and overall economy.
Wall Street ended with only modest changes after a steep sell-off on Tuesday on worries about the global economy and ...
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hewlett-Packard Co.'s quarterly profit dropped 13 percent, and sales ticked up just one percent, as even the technology company's cash-cow printer ink business was hobbled by the recession.
The world's top seller of personal comp...
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ST. JOHN'S, Antigua (AP) — Panicky depositors were turned away from Stanford International Bank and some of its Latin American affiliates yesterday, unable to withdraw their money now after US regulators accused Texas financier Allen Stanford of perp...
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The Bermuda Stock Exchange yesterday announced the approval of the listing of the Cadiz Dynamic Global Opportunities Fund Ltd.
The British Virgin Islands-registered fund's listing is for 499,500,000 class A and 499,500,00 class B shares with a par va...
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index fell broadly yesterday for a third straight session, touching a 2009 low, pressured by weak energy and financial issues and a slide by Rogers Communications Inc.
The heavily weighted financial services a...
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The banking sector suffered a bad trading day on The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange yesterday, forcing a drop of more than 50 points on the index.
The Bermuda Commercial Bank saw the biggest decline, tumbling $2, or 22.2 percent, to $7, as 3,...
DATE: Feb 19, 2009
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Bermuda-based Nordic American Tankers Ltd. yesterday boosted its earnings capacity with the delivery of its latest tanker, named Nordic Sprite.
The debt-free oil tanker operator has now expanded its fleet to 15 Suezmax tankers — so called because the...
DATE: Feb 19, 2009
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