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LONDON (AP) — Scottish & Southern Energy PLC, Britain's second-largest energy supplier, said yesterday that profit for the first half of its financial year plunged 78 percent as higher wholesale gas and electricity costs crunched profit margins and s...
DATE: Nov 13, 2008
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KeyTech Ltd., the parent company of the Bermuda Telephone Company, was the only advancer in The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange trading yesterday.
KeyTech gained 50 cents (5.3 percent) to close on $10.00, on the trading of 300 shares.
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DATE: Nov 13, 2008
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new york (Bloomberg) — US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson plans to use the second half of the $700 billion financial rescue programme to help relieve pressures on consumer credit, scrapping an effort to buy devalued mortgage assets.
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LONDON (AP) — J Sainsbury PLC, Britain's third largest supermarket chain, posted a 5.6 percent rise in first-half net profit yesterday, crediting its range of discounted products with attracting customers despite the looming recession.
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If the experts on Wall Street had sat up and taken notice of the advice from financial models maybe today's credit crisis would have been averted.
That is according to Karen Clark, president and chief executive officer of Karen Clark & Co., who was t...
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LONDON (AP) — Britain's unemployment rate rose sharply to 5.8 percent in the three months to September, as the economic slowdown hit the job market and raised the number of jobless to its highest in over a decade, official figures showed yesterday.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A disheartened Wall Street fell for the third straight session yesterday as investors absorbed another series of dismal corporate reports and news that the government won't buy banks' soured mortgage assets after all. The Dow Jones in...
DATE: Nov 13, 2008
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Age: 46
Role: Office manager, Lancashire Insurance Company
What is your job? I am the office manager at Lancashire Insurance Company Ltd. Essentially, my job is to ensure that the administrative functions of the office run efficiently and support the...
DATE: Nov 13, 2008
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Bermuda Aviation Services (BAS) boosted its net earnings by more than 12 percent for the first half of this year, with the overall results only six percent behind its full-year results for 2007.
Net earnings for the six-month duration were $2.2 milli...
DATE: Nov 12, 2008
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BEIJING (AP) — China's massive stimulus package will help contribute to global stability by boosting investment in the world's fourth-largest economy and consumer spending, the nation's top economic official said on Monday.
Faced with the prospect of...
DATE: Nov 12, 2008
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