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Telecommunications providers in Bermuda are deeply split over whether industry reforms announced in Parliament last Friday will improve competition and services on Island or spell the death knell for smaller providers.
Bermuda is set to abandon its c...
DATE: Nov 26, 2008
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LONDON (Reuters) - Banks must resume lending if the UK is to avoid a steep recession, Bank of England Governor Mervyn King warned yesterday, although he said a government fiscal boost should go some way to fending off a slump.
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DATE: Nov 26, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street showed some signs of stability yesterday as investors, heartened by government plans to aid consumer lending companies, selectively bought more stocks following a huge two-day rally. Gains in blue chips gave the Dow Jones ...
DATE: Nov 26, 2008
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Communication was the name of the name of the game at the annual educational conference of the Bermuda Chapter of the International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP).
The meeting, which was held at the Fairmont Southampton Princess l...
DATE: Nov 26, 2008
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LONDON (AP) — Mortgage lending in Britain has more than halved over the past year, according to the British Banker's Association — further evidence that the economic downturn is dramatically hurting the country's property market.
The number of new ho...
DATE: Nov 26, 2008
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The US government, still struggling to manage a severe financial crisis, unveiled two new programmes yesterday that will provide $800 billion to try to help unfreeze the market for consumer debt from home mortgages to credit cards.
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DATE: Nov 26, 2008
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Primus Guaranty Ltd. is set to buy approximately 3.2 million of its shares in a private transaction at the start of next month.
The company agreed to pay 70 cents per share for a total cost of around $2.2 million.
The block trade was carried out unde...
DATE: Nov 26, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) — With the recent releases of three new BlackBerrys across three different wireless providers, Research In Motion Ltd. has fired back at Apple Inc. in the Great Smart Phone Skirmish of 2008.
The introduction of the touch-screen BlackBer...
DATE: Nov 26, 2008
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CHARLOTTE (AP) — American International Group Inc. said yesterday it is limiting how much it pays its top executives, including granting a $1 salary for this year and the same for 2009 to its chief executive Edward Liddy.
The decision is one of many ...
DATE: Nov 26, 2008
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Retailers have to go back to basics to give consumers what they want in order to survive the current downturn, says the new chairman of the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce's East End division.
Kirby Brackstone, who, with his wife Isabelle, owns the Bermu...
DATE: Nov 26, 2008
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