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LONDON (Reuters) - Consumer confidence in Britain fell last month at its fastest rate in more than three years, a survey showed yesterday, in a further sign the credit squeeze and rising living costs are affecting morale.
The Nationwide building soci...
DATE: Dec 06, 2007
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SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) - McDonald's Corp.'s $1 menu offers more than burgers, chicken nuggets and fries. Diners can now rent hot DVDs such as "Shrek 3" from automated kiosks for a buck, $3 cheaper than at Blockbuster Inc. stores.
Blockbuster, the ...
DATE: Dec 06, 2007
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - Eisai Co., the maker of the world's best-selling Alzheimer's medicine, won permission to appeal a UK court decision that upheld government funding limits for the pill.
The Court of Appeals will permit the challenge, which the Tok...
DATE: Dec 06, 2007
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LONDON (Reuters) - Investors rushed yesterday to bet on an interest rate cut from the Bank of England as fresh evidence emerged of slowing growth, falling house prices and tumbling consumer confidence.
Until recently, most economists had expected rat...
DATE: Dec 06, 2007
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LONDON (Reuters) - More than four million people are still paying for last Christmas, a report shows.
One in 10 of us, equal to 4.4 percent of the adult population, are still carrying credit card debts from Christmas 2006, according to a poll of almo...
DATE: Dec 05, 2007
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SHANGHAI, China (AP) — China has released a draft of a long-awaited energy law that calls for the country to keep larger reserves of oil, uranium and other key resources and to set up a new government department.
But the draft law makes scant mention...
DATE: Dec 05, 2007
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Argus Group Holdings Ltd. boosted its share price by 30 cents (two percent) to close up at $15.25 on the Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
The insurance company traded a total of 2,000 shares throughout the day.
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DATE: Dec 05, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - Ritchie Capital Management Ltd.'s two bankrupt life-insurance funds asked for more time to auction their assets, saying for a second time that potential buyers have not been able to get the information they need.
Ritchie Risk-L...
DATE: Dec 05, 2007
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Computers outranked peace and happiness for the most desired gift this year in an annual US survey by the consumer electronics industry's largest trade organisation.
PC vendors are happy to oblige. They've come out with desktops and laptops to cover ...
DATE: Dec 05, 2007
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Bermuda-registered Ship Finance International has agreed to sell its two remaining suezmax tankers with double sides but only single bottom.
Front Birch and Front Maple, which were both built in 1991, are being sold to unrelated third parties and del...
DATE: Dec 05, 2007
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