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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar fell against the yen on Friday, but recovered from a 13-year low after the White House said it would consider steps to stave off a collapse of the ailing US auto sector.
Earlier, the dollar plunged to 88.10 yen, its lo...
DATE: Dec 15, 2008
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LONDON (Reuters) - London's position as the world's top financial centre is under threat from the global downturn and fierce competition from New York and fast-growing hubs like Dubai, Singapore and Shanghai, a report said on Friday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street's push to recover from 11-year lows could hit major speed bumps this week as investors fret about the US automakers' fate and the Federal Reserve holds its last scheduled policy meeting of 2008.
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Assertiveness, stress management and motivation are all key qualities needed to today's tough and challenging marketplace.
And those are exactly the topical and relevant subjects Paul Loftus, a Montreal-based international management development cons...
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - UK treasury chief secretary Yvette Cooper said the government does not target the pound and Europe Minister Caroline Flint raised the prospect of a halt to the currency's slide after it reached a record low against the euro.
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The planned departure of a group of Bermuda-based corporations to Switzerland has attracted the attention of leading financial newspaper The Wall Street Journal.
In a story published on Friday, under the headline "Swiss gain as tax plan dims Bermuda'...
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MOSCOW (Bloomberg) - Renaissance Securities Trading Ltd., a unit of the Russian investment and retail bank, plans to buy back as much as $40 million of its outstanding dollar bonds.
Renaissance is offering bondholders a maximum 60 percent of face val...
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) experienced more downs than ups last week, with no fewer than five companies seeing their share prices fall.
The banking sector was the hardest hit, with LOM (Holdings) Ltd. dropping five cents (1....
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - Old Mutual plc., the UK insurer that has lost 67 percent of its market value this year, said 14 percent of policyholders signed up to an offer to waive annuity policy guarantees to help contain losses at its US unit.
The policyho...
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Bermuda reinsurers, regulators and Finance Minister Paula Cox met with the state of Florida's chief financial officer Alex Sink last week to discuss options for boosting the state's catastrophe fund's capacity.
Ms Sink met privately with executives o...
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