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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Genpact Ltd., a computer services company spun off by General Electric Co. in 2004, boosted the amount it plans to raise in an initial public offering to as much as $731 million.The company expects to sell 17.6 mi...
DATE: Jul 17, 2007
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks fell, led by energy producers including Cameco Corp., as investors speculated uranium shares are overpriced and natural gas futures in New York dropped the most in almost a month.Cameco, the world's largest urani...
DATE: Jul 17, 2007
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LONDON (Reuters) — The number of profit warnings in Britain leaped 13 percent in the first half compared with the same period last year, amid higher interest rates and sluggish sales, accountancy firm Ernst & Young said yesterday.British quoted compa...
DATE: Jul 17, 2007
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — The Canadian dollar surged to the strongest in 30 years as the price of crude oil traded near an 11-month high, boosting the outlook for the nation's export revenue.The currency extended its gains after its climb above C$1.0440 ...
DATE: Jul 17, 2007
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index reached an all-time high yesterday.
The Index soared to 5,214.44, rising by 26.65 points, beating its previous record of 5,188.66 and representing a change of 0.51 percent.
Butterfield Bank was the only ...
DATE: Jul 17, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Blue chip stocks rose yesterday as news of a potential big telecom deal involving Verizon pushed the Dow Jones industrials to a new record close, and put the index closer to 14,000. Overall, stocks traded were mixed as investors diges...
DATE: Jul 17, 2007
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The Bermuda jobs market has been hit hard by the falling value of the dollar, according to one of the Island's specialist recruitment agencies.
They reckon that potential employees are being lured away to places such as Canada and Dublin in Ireland b...
DATE: Jul 17, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Marsh & McLennan Cos., the world's largest insurance broker, was sued by a former executive who says the company used a state bid-rigging probe as an "excuse" to terminate him and failed to meet its severance obligations.In the...
DATE: Jul 17, 2007
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Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. has been ranked as the world's largest insurance broker for the 36th consecutive year by Business Insurance, which published its annual 2007 brokerage report yesterday.
Marsh's 2006 brokerage and related services reve...
DATE: Jul 17, 2007
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Bermuda's accountancy sector is leading the fightback in the recruitment battle against rival countries.
That is according to Richard Bartlett, experienced hire recruiter from Ernst & Young Ltd., who believes the Island has a lot more to offer than j...
DATE: Jul 17, 2007
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