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NEW YORK (AP) — During the Great Depression, New York's ebullient mayor Fiorello LaGuardia dubbed the popular marble lions that frame the steps of the city's main library Patience and Fortitude — a reference to the strengths the city's denizens would...
DATE: Apr 23, 2007
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TORONTO (Reuters) — The torrent of Canadian quarterly profit reports over the next few weeks is expected to top estimates, which should help the Toronto stock market keep building on its recent streak of record highs.The Toronto Stock Exchange’s main...
DATE: Apr 23, 2007
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SHANGHAI, China (AP) — It’s not exactly the newest car model on display at Shanghai’s gigantic auto show. But the made-in-China “London taxi” definitely reflects the latest realities of an increasingly global auto industry.As Chinese youths in red un...
DATE: Apr 23, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — The dollar dropped to a 27-month low against the euro as signs of slowing inflation and growth lessen the currency’s appeal.The US currency also tumbled to the weakest against the British pound in 26 years as investors bet the ...
DATE: Apr 23, 2007
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Critics around the world should stop pointing the finger at offshore financial centres and get their own houses in order, according to the president of the Association of Bermuda Compliance Officers (ABCO).
Owen Reid said the world’s biggest money-la...
DATE: Apr 23, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Tyco International Ltd. said it under-reported taxes by $14 million in the five quarters ended in December and restated results to correct the error. The company also said its break-up will occur later than planne...
DATE: Apr 23, 2007
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Property developer and manager West Hamilton Ltd. has estimated that its planned construction of four new multi-purpose structures around the existing Belvedere Building just outside Hamilton will cost $80 million.
In announcing its first quarter res...
DATE: Apr 23, 2007
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The insurer of last resort, the government faces a potential pay-out of at least $919 billion under a worst-case scenario of flood and crop losses due to global warming, congressional investigators say.That total has grown from abou...
DATE: Apr 23, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street bounded higher yesterday, hurtling the Dow Jones industrial average to a record close approaching 13,000 as investors celebrated a week of surprisingly strong earnings reports. The major indexes all had their third straigh...
DATE: Apr 21, 2007
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Q: Do you think my shares of TiVo Inc. are headed upward? — C.T., via the internet: It is never easy to be a pioneer, even a tenacious one with a well-known name.
The digital video-recording service that lets subscribers pause, rewind and fast-forwar...
DATE: Apr 21, 2007
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