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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street retreated as investors, casting a wary eye toward upcoming economic data, cashed in some profits on the last trading day of April — the Dow Jones industrial average's best month in more than three years.Investors did manag...
DATE: May 01, 2007
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The Hartford faces probe
NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — The New York Attorney General is “likely” to act against Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., the sixth-largest US insurer by market value, after a probe over whether it paid brokers hidden fees to g...
DATE: May 01, 2007
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Bermuda-based Catlin Group, the biggest insurer on the Lloyd’s of London market, has made two high-level appointments within its London operation.
The international specialty insurer and reinsurer has made Chris King and Matthew Newman business group...
DATE: May 01, 2007
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BERLIN (AP) — German stock exchange operator Deutsche Boerse AG said yesterday that it has agreed to buy the US-based options exchange International Securities Exchange Holdings Inc. for $2.8 billion in cash.The acquisition would make Deutsche Boerse...
DATE: May 01, 2007
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A Bermuda-registered company has received approval in the US to conduct a large, randomised study to track the effectiveness of a vaccine being developed to help smokers break their addiction to nicotine.
Celtic Pharma has been given clearance for a ...
DATE: May 01, 2007
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Belco shares fell and contributed to a 14.71 point (0.29 percent) slip in the Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange to 5,114.32.
Shares of Belco ended 80 cents lower (3.4 percent) at $23 after 151 were exchanged.
There was also trading of 19,075 But...
DATE: May 01, 2007
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LOM Holdings Ltd. yesterday said its net income more than doubled in the 2006 financial year as it recorded a profit of $1.65 million or 26 cents per share.
LOM chief executive officer Scott Lines said revenues slipped one percent to $12.8 million, b...
DATE: May 01, 2007
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NEW YORK (Reuters) — Diversified manufacturer Ingersoll-Rand Co. Ltd. reported lower first-quarter profits on Friday, as the downturn in US home construction hurt demand for Bobcat loaders and excavators used in construction.But the results beat Wall...
DATE: May 01, 2007
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SYDNEY (Bloomberg) — Bruce Gordon's WIN Television Network Ltd., Australia's largest private media company, offered to buy regional broadcaster NBN Television, rivalling a bid from James Packer's PBL Media Ltd.The bidders will have to submit final of...
DATE: May 01, 2007
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index ended lower, but well off the day's lows, as lingering worries about the health of the US economy helped drag down financial and materials issues.The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 10.3...
DATE: May 01, 2007
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