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SANTANDER, SPAIN (Bloomberg) - Vodafone Group plc., the world's largest mobile-phone company by revenue, said proposed regulations for new fixed-line broadband services in Spain may hurt business.
Spain's phone regulator aims to promote competition a...
DATE: Sep 03, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based MF Global Ltd., the futures broker that lost $141 million earlier this year on an unauthorised employee trade, appointed Michael Roseman as chief risk officer.
The hire comes about four months after chief executiv...
DATE: Sep 03, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street succumbed to its ongoing angst yesterday, giving up a sharp advance and turning moderately lower after falling oil prices failed to calm the market's nervousness about the economy and the financial sector.
The Dow Jones in...
DATE: Sep 03, 2008
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LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Dominion Petroleum Ltd. posted a much wider first-half loss, hit by litigation costs, but expressed confidence of an 'extremely bright future' for the company.
For the six months to June 30, 2008, the Bermuda-based compan...
DATE: Sep 03, 2008
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index was hammered by a sell-off in resources yesterday, plunging more than three percent as commodity prices fell, marking its worst day in more than seven months.
The heavyweight energy sector l...
DATE: Sep 03, 2008
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BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — European Union antitrust regulators said yesterday that they had put on hold an antitrust probe into miner BHP Billiton's bid for rival Rio Tinto Inc. because the companies have not provided information.
The regulators opened...
DATE: Sep 03, 2008
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Realtor Kim Sheen has joined the team at McInnis & Associates Ltd. as the company celebrates its first year in business.
Ms Sheen, who moved to Bermuda from Rhode Island in 2005 and is the spouse of a Bermudian, has 18 years of experience as a realto...
DATE: Sep 03, 2008
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Argus Group Holdings Ltd. continued its recent slump, dropping $1 (7.14 percent) to $13 on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
The insurer traded 200 shares during the day.
Belco Holdings Ltd. also fell 55 cents (2.81 perc...
DATE: Sep 03, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices plunged to the lowest level in five months yesterday, falling to within sight of $100 a barrel on signs that Hurricane Gustav only grazed US energy infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico.
Light, sweet crude for October delive...
DATE: Sep 03, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based CIFG Holding Ltd., the owner of the smallest of the formerly AAA-rated financial guarantors, reached an agreement with banks to tear up contracts guaranteeing the repayment of $12 billion in securities.
The compan...
DATE: Sep 03, 2008
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