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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index ended lower as profit-taking in resource shares offset news that Empire Company has bid to take grocery chain Sobeys private in a deal worth about C$1.06 billion.The S&P/TSX composite index ...
DATE: Apr 27, 2007
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NEW YORK (Reuters) — Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. reported a 6 percent decline in earnings but beat Wall Street estimates yesterday, helped by the European launch of Coke Zero and raw material costs that rose less than expected.Shares in Coke Enterpris...
DATE: Apr 27, 2007
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The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange edged 4.58 points (0.09 percent) higher to end at 5,115.7 after more than $1 million worth of shares were traded.
The only advancing stock was KeyTech which improved by 25 cents (1.6 percent) to 415.55 after...
DATE: Apr 27, 2007
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Bermuda's information technology environment is now the 15th best in the world, ahead of the likes of Japan, Germany and Ireland, in the 2007 survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
The Island has improved by five places in the listing that measur...
DATE: Apr 27, 2007
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There are no tower cranes involved, but KPMG has been doing a bit of construction — or more correctly restructuring — to its business in the past few months.
It has created an all-new, fully integrated advisory service offering that brings together i...
DATE: Apr 27, 2007
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LONDON (AP) — Barclays PLC chief executive John Varley said yesterday that the British bank was confident it had an "agreed merger" with ABN Amro NV, despite the Dutch bank opening its books to higher bid from a consortium led by the Royal Bank of Sc...
DATE: Apr 27, 2007
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Arch Capital has improved its first-quarter profits by $59 million year-on-year despite a near $200m drop in gross premiums written compared to the corresponding period in 2006.
The company's board of directors authorised a $1 billion share repurchas...
DATE: Apr 27, 2007
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A quarter of a million dollars has been granted to the Uptown Market Association to help further its aim of improving the quality of life and business in the uptown area of Hamilton, centred on Court Street and its environs.
The money will be put to ...
DATE: Apr 27, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — It looks like cause for celebration: The Dow Jones industrial average surged from 12,000 to 13,000 in just six months. But appearances can be deceiving, and there may be more reason to worry than rejoice about Wall Street’s latest acc...
DATE: Apr 26, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Tyco Electronics, one of two units to be spun off from Bermuda-based Tyco International Ltd., was assigned a BBB corporate rating by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, while it received a Baa2 rating from Moody's Investors Ser...
DATE: Apr 26, 2007
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