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Toronto (Bloomberg) Canadian stocks gained, paced by energy shares, as crude oil climbed and take-over in the oil industry fanned speculation that more companies will be bought.Energy shares gained 0.9 percent, the most of 10 industry groups, after ...
DATE: Apr 28, 2007
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NOW that social arbiter Tom Wolfe has anointed hedge-fund stars the new Masters of the Universe, how can you finagle your underachieving self a seat on the gravy train before it hits the buffers?That 25th anniversary college-reunion invitation will b...
DATE: Apr 28, 2007
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BEIJING (Reuters) — China denied yesterday that grain protein products its companies sold to the United States caused a spate of pet deaths, but it promised to tighten controls and ban a suspect chemical from the food ingredients.US Food and Drug Adm...
DATE: Apr 27, 2007
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THE report that Toyota Motor Corp., Japan's biggest automaker, surpassed No. 1 General Motors Corp. in world-wide sales during the first quarter shouldn't be viewed as evidence of US industrial decline.US automaking arguably has never been stronger. ...
DATE: Apr 27, 2007
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THE "tortilla crisis" that shook Mexico in January may not have been a flash in the pan.If Jing Ulrich, the Hong Kong-based chairwoman of China equities at JPMorgan Chase & Co., is correct, everything from beer to steak might just become more expensi...
DATE: Apr 27, 2007
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ZURICH (Bloomberg) — Scor SA shareholders voted in favour of France's biggest reinsurer proceeding with its $2.6 billion offer for Swiss rival Converium Holding AG.Each of six resolutions that would allow for the takeover submitted to investors at an...
DATE: Apr 27, 2007
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TOKYO (AP) — Booming sales of the popular Wii and DS game machines lifted Nintendo Co.'s earnings 77 percent in the latest fiscal year as the Japanese gamemaker held its own against bigger rivals Sony and Microsoft.Nintendo reported a group net profi...
DATE: Apr 27, 2007
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DEARBORN, Michigan (AP) — Ford Motor Co. yesterday posted a first-quarter net loss of $282 million, a vast improvement over the $1.4 billion it lost in the first quarter of 2006.It was the company's seventh consecutive quarter of losses, but the auto...
DATE: Apr 27, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-registered Bunge Ltd., the world's biggest oilseed processor, said first-quarter profit fell 76 percent on wrong way bets on soybean futures. The shares plummeted after Bunge said $40 million in trading losses won't be ...
DATE: Apr 27, 2007
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Small construction contractors in Bermuda can now access up to $200,000 of seed money to help them start building projects.
As long as they are part of the Small Business Service Incubator initiative they are eligible to apply for the reduced-interes...
DATE: Apr 27, 2007
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