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ATLANTA (Bloomberg) — Accenture, the world's second biggest technology consulting firm, won a $185 million contract from Microsoft Corporation to provide finance, accounting and purchasing services.
Under the seven-year agreement, Accenture will run ...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Tyco International, the world's largest maker of security systems through its ADT unit, raised its quarterly dividend 36 percent and authorized a $1 billion share buyback program.
The dividend will increase to 15 cents a share ...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - Options traders increased their bets that shares of Research In Motion Ltd. will trade one-third higher by December after an analyst said the maker of BlackBerry e-mail devices is gaining market share.
Research Capital Corp. ci...
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Capital G Bank customers will now be able to transfer their funds online thanks to the Butterfield Bank.
The Direct Online Banking service gives Capital G customers a more cost effective and convenient way of banking.
The project was started in March...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - Pirate Capital LLC, the hedge-fund manager run by Thomas Hudson, and Wharton Asset Management, the London-based owner of the Y2K Finance Inc. fund, became the latest firms to restrict investor withdrawals.
Pirate designated the...
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What passes as space age in 1964 tends to appear dated 40 years later.
And while Bank of Bermuda's office at the eastern side of Hamilton has been subject to occasional improvements during the intervening four decades it was looking decidedly "yester...
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) - Canadian stocks rose to the highest in six weeks, led by energy shares, on optimism that lower borrowing costs and higher oil prices will boost profits even as the economy may be slowed by losses on subprime mortgages.
Suncor En...
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The devastation wreaked by Hurricane Humberto could have been much worse if it has started in the open water further south in the Gulf of Mexico according to Claire Souch, senior director of model management at Risk Management Solutions (RMS).
The Ca...
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - Hardy Underwriting, the second-best stock performer this year among Lloyd's of London insurers, said first-half profit rose 59 percent and it's considering a move to Bermuda to do more US business.
Net income for the six months e...
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The world of insurance will descend upon Bermuda at a three-day conference next week which has attracted around 400 delegates.
Bermuda Captive 07, the Island's own captive conference, will host global insurers and reinsurers at the Fairmont Southampt...
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