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SEATTLE (Bloomberg) - Boeing Co., the world's second- biggest commercial-plane maker, said it's still working through "wrinkles" in the supply chain for its new 787 Dreamliner and will deliver the first aircraft as scheduled in late 2008.
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DATE: Dec 12, 2007
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WASHINGTON (Dow Jones/AP) — The Securities and Exchange Commission is calling on banks and insurance companies to inform investors about exposure to potentially troublesome loans and securities tied to riskier subprime borrowers.
Chief financial offi...
DATE: Dec 12, 2007
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Construction sales led the way for Bermuda's retail sales over the month of October.
Sales activity in the building and hardware sector reached double-digit gains, increasing 10.3 percent compared to October 2006 and following a 23.4 percent decline ...
DATE: Dec 12, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Dell, the second-largest personal-computer maker, plans to sell its first pen- and finger-controlled machine this month to attract more mobile users.
The Latitude XT tablet has a 12.1-inch (31-centimeter) screen and costs $2,49...
DATE: Dec 12, 2007
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More than 100 million music fans know the joys of portable digital music players — the ability to carry a large number of your favourite songs, arranged in playlists of your design, on a pocket-size gadget.
But for some folks, getting the most out of...
DATE: Dec 12, 2007
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–WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Reserve cut a key interest rate by one-quarter of a percentage point yesterday, trying to keep the country out of recession.
The reduction in the federal funds rate to 4.25 percent marked the third rate cut in the past ...
DATE: Dec 12, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - MBIA Inc., seeking to avert a crippling reduction of its AAA credit rating, will raise as much as $1 billion by selling a stake to private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC.
MBIA, the world's biggest bond insurer, rose 13 percent ...
DATE: Dec 12, 2007
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ROME (Bloomberg) - The second day of a strike by truck drivers paralysed road traffic across Italy, leading to gasoline shortages and causing Fiat SpA, the country's biggest manufacturer, to suspend production at its Italian plants.
Fiat was forced t...
DATE: Dec 12, 2007
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Bermuda's status as the number one destination for insurance and reinsurance start-ups is under threat - that is according to an article by one of the world's most renowned financial publications, London's Financial Times.
The story, entitled 'Paradi...
DATE: Dec 12, 2007
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GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, (PRNewswire via COMTEX) — A third-round evaluation of the Cayman Islands' anti-money laundering (AML) and combating the financing of terrorism (CFT) regimes by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) concluded o...
DATE: Dec 12, 2007
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