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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - Yahoo! Inc., owner of the most visited US website, may seek to avoid a Microsoft Corp. takeover by combining Internet operations with News Corp.
The two companies are discussing a transaction, according to a person with knowled...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - Bermuda-based Ingersoll-Rand Co., the maker of refrigerated truck equipment that's buying Trane Inc., said fourth-quarter profit fell 19 percent, hurt by a higher tax rate. Full-year profit may miss analysts' estimates because ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Many of the world's poorest people are unable to get enough food because of soaring prices partly caused by the use of food crops to produce biofuels, the head of the UN food agency said.
"We're seeing more people hungry and at greate...
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It proved to be a day of differing fortunes for companies across The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
BF&M Ltd. saw its share price rise $1 (4.8 percent) to close at $22, with 3,000 shares traded, as did Butterfield Bank, w...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street retreated yesterday after Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke predicted a "sluggish" economy until later in the year and more mortgage-related losses at banks. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 175 points.
Though the...
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Risk Management Solutions (RMS) has launched the first parametric index for assessing insured industry losses from windstorms in Europe.
Paradex Europe Windstorm combines wind speed measurements in specific locations with industry exposure data, and ...
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XL Capital Ltd. chief executive officer Brian O'Hara told investors in New York this week that the Bermuda insurer is "way undervalued" and he believes the markets will understand that before long.
XL shares have lost 47 percent of their value over t...
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NEW YORK (AP) — When she was single, Nicole Bradshaw Jackson didn't put a lot of thought into her spending decisions.
"It's your money, and you get used to spending it the way you want," said Jackson, a 31-year-old health communications specialist at...
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LONDON (Reuters) - British consumers have more plastic cards in their wallets than people in any other country in western Europe, a report shows.
Independent market analyst Datamonitor found that the average British adult now carries 2.8 cards — almo...
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Love was most certainly in the air in the run-up to Valentine's Day, with sales booming according to retailers across the board.
The traditional chocolates-and-flowers combination proved to be a big hit as always among shoppers, while jewellery and r...
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