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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Citigroup Inc., the biggest US bank, yesterday agreed to buy Bisys Group Inc. for $1.47 billion, broadening the services it offers hedge funds and private-equity firms to include accounting and other administrative tasks.Bisys ...
DATE: May 03, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Tyco International Ltd. bondholders said they formed a group to oppose the company’s offer to buy back $6.6 billion of its debt securities.Tyco offered April 27 to buy back the bonds as part of its plan to spit into three compa...
DATE: May 03, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Investors resumed their buying spree on Wall Street, driving stocks higher after a bid for media company Dow Jones & Co. revived enthusiasm about takeover activity.The Dow Jones industrial average reached another record close, its 38t...
DATE: May 02, 2007
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LONDON - Britain's top share index scored a one percent gain, as results sent Lonmin and BSkyB flying, while an undercurrent of M&A hopes also helped inject life into the market. The FTSE 100 closed at 6,484.5 points, up 64.9 or one percent.ROUNDUP:E...
DATE: May 02, 2007
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The insurance industry is to Bermuda as air is to life, Premier Ewart Brown said after touring the RIMS Conference in New Orleans yesterday.
Speaking after visiting the Bermuda booth in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center with a delegation that in...
DATE: May 02, 2007
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Cash registers around the Island are quieter than a year ago, with the latest retail figures showing a four percent fall in the volume of sales once February's 2.2 percent rate of inflation is factored in.
Even without the adjustment for inflation, s...
DATE: May 02, 2007
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Premier Dr Ewart Brown was so impressed by the Bermuda booth at RIMS that he asked if the Ministry of Tourism could borrow it for use at two major international tourism conferences.
The new booth, fashioned in a Bermuda architectural style, has caugh...
DATE: May 02, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, said yesterday it received an unsolicited bid from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. to buy the company for $5 billion. The news sent its shares soaring and those of other newspaper com...
DATE: May 02, 2007
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — John Browne stepped down as chief executive officer of BP Plc three months earlier than planned after losing a legal battle to prevent the publication of claims he let a former boyfriend use company resources.BP, Europe's second-...
DATE: May 02, 2007
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A cafe empire is spreading across Hamilton.
In three short years, Holger Eiselt has gone from owning one cafe in the Washington Mall to having three outlets in prime locations around the city.
The latest is 'Buzz 2' inside the Hamilton Pharmacy on Pa...
DATE: May 02, 2007
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