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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's attorney general issued a subpoena to former Merrill Lynch chief executive John Thain yesterday in a probe into bonuses paid to the firm's employees just days before its takeover by Bank of America Corp .
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BERLIN (AP) - With my trench coat and dark glasses, I looked like a rumpled, portly version of Jason Bourne or James Bond as I stood by the Glienicke Bridge between Berlin and Potsdam, famed as the transfer point for captured spies between the East a...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - US stocks climbed yesterday, with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq up for a third straight day as a rare bit of encouraging news on the earnings front from companies, including American Express, offset fresh signs that consumers remain...
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A total of 11,325 shares worth $105,996.80 were traded on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
The Index opened and closed at 3,222.19, with no share prices changing.
Of the traders, Butterfield Bank led the way with 11,300...
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HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) — A former executive of insurance heavyweight American International Group Inc. was sentenced to four years in prison yesterday in a fraud case that authorities say cost shareholders more than $500 million.
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Bermuda-based reinsurer CastlePoint Holdings, Ltd. announced yesterday that its shareholders approved the merger with a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tower Group, Inc.
CastlePoint shareholders cast 27,682,906 votes in favour of the merger, which repres...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Nicholas Cosmo, founder of Agape World Inc. in Hauppauge, New York, was charged with defrauding 1,500 investors of more than $370 million, US authorities said.
Cosmo operated a Ponzi scheme at least between October 2003 and Dec...
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A surplus of prime and secondary office space is expected to become available in Hamilton over the next two to three years, while a number of businesses will move from their existing premises into new facilities at the same time.
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Internet service providers Transact and FKBNet have joined forces in a move they say will improve their services to customers.
The news came in a statement posted on the Transact website by Bill Dickinson, the general manager of the FKB / Transact pa...
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) - Canadian stocks rose a third day, the longest streak since January 6, as financial and industrial companies gained on expectations that increased government spending in Canada and the U.S. will help temper the recession.
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