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The consumer sector was where all the big movers were on the Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
Kentucky Fried Chicken Bermuda boosted its share value by $1 (0.17 percent) to close up at $7, with 600 shares traded, while Devo...
DATE: Dec 08, 2007
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The online discussions I host give me an opportunity to see the financial issues that trouble people the most. Often what I find are people racked with fear.
And the fear isn't just displayed by folks deeply in debt. Some money worriers are people wh...
DATE: Dec 08, 2007
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Butterfield Bank is branching out its fast-growing overseas operations with the set up of a new office in the UK.
The bank yesterday announced the establishment of Butterfield International Private Office Ltd. in London as part of its expanding wealt...
DATE: Dec 07, 2007
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Bermuda-domiciled Tyco International has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of 15 cents per common share. The dividend is payable on February 1 to shareholders of record as of January 3.
Tyco International is provider of security products and...
DATE: Dec 07, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Covidien, the maker of medical supplies spun off from Tyco International, said fiscal fourth-quarter profit fell 90 percent after raw material and energy costs prompted asset writedowns.
Net income dropped to $34 million, or se...
DATE: Dec 07, 2007
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–CHICAGO (AP) - Conrad Black, the brash media mogul who vacationed in Bora Bora, rode around London in a Rolls Royce and ended up convicted of swindling shareholders out of millions of dollars, is headed for prison where inmates are paid 12 cents an ...
DATE: Dec 07, 2007
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–NEW YORK (AP) - One of the clearest signs that retailers are nervous this holiday season is likely to be found at Wal-Mart stores this weekend: stacks of Webkinz.
The fiercely popular Webkinz, plush toys that children collect and use the Internet to...
DATE: Dec 07, 2007
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Royal Bank of Scotland Group, the UK's second-biggest bank, reported £1.5 billion pounds ($3 billion) of writedowns from slumping credit markets and said earnings will exceed analysts' estimates this year.
Royal Bank rose 2.7 per...
DATE: Dec 07, 2007
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TEXAS (Bloomberg) - A BP plc. contractor who was 30 to 40 yards from the explosion that killed 15 co-workers at a Texas refinery in 2005 told jurors he hid his injuries and kept working because he could not afford to quit.
"I got sick to my stomach,"...
DATE: Dec 07, 2007
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HONK KONG (Bloomberg) — China Pacific Insurance (Group) Company, the nation's third-biggest insurer, may raise as much as $4 billion in what could be the largest Chinese insurance initial public offering, said two people familiar with the sale.
The c...
DATE: Dec 07, 2007
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