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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) - Confidence among US consumers probably fell to a five-year low in March as more Americans lost their jobs and gasoline prices climbed, economists said before reports yesterday.
The Conference Board's confidence index fell to ...
DATE: Mar 26, 2008
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OSLO (Reuters) - Shares in oil tanker group Frontline leapt as much as 10.5 percent yesterday after the Norwegian company and its main owner took a 5.2 percent stake in Overseas Shipholding Group (OSG), sparking takeover speculation.
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DATE: Mar 26, 2008
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) - Home prices in 20 US metropolitan areas fell in January by the most on record, a sign the housing recession is deepening, a private survey showed yesterday.
The S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index dropped 10.7 percent from Janu...
DATE: Mar 26, 2008
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JOHANNESBURG (Bloomberg) - Sasol Ltd., the oil company that helped shield the apartheid regime from sanctions, will sell $3.2 billion of shares to black investors in South Africa's largest redistribution of wealth since the end of white-minority rule...
DATE: Mar 26, 2008
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index pushed higher for a third session in a row yesterday, powered by strong gains in resources amid a rebound in commodity prices.
A rally in the price of gold helped make miners among the bigge...
DATE: Mar 26, 2008
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He was an unassuming man who, even as a chairman and president of several company boards, would be more likely found pedalling his bike from his Fairylands, Pembroke home then in a chauffeured car.
That is just who he was Jeff Conyers said of his fat...
DATE: Mar 26, 2008
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It proved to be a quiet day on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index yesterday, with 8,877 shares worth $156,528.90 changing hands.
Of those, Butterfield Bank traded 8,457, Argus Group Holdings Ltd. 400, and BF&M Ltd. 20, but none of the com...
DATE: Mar 26, 2008
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PHILADELPHIA (Dow Jones/AP) - Three bondholders are seeking to force PacificNet Inc. into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, claiming the gaming technology and telemarketing company is not paying its bills.
Officials of the Beijing-based company could not be rea...
DATE: Mar 26, 2008
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Butterfield Bank is recommending its shareholders to appoint three new directors at its Annual General Meeting on April 16.
In the proxy forms being mailed to its shareholders this week, the board of directors is recommending the appointment of Graha...
DATE: Mar 26, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street paused after a huge two-session rally yesterday, but still managed to hold on to almost all its gains even after disappointing reports on consumer sentiment and the housing market.
Stocks pulled past profit-taking that was...
DATE: Mar 26, 2008
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