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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index fell sharply to a one-week low yesterday as resource shares bore the brunt of a sell-off sparked by China's unexpected decision to raise interest rates.
The index's heavily weighted energy and materials ...
DATE: Oct 20, 2010
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MADRID (Bloomberg) — German Vilimelis heard about Spain's solar gold rush from his brother-in-law in 2007.
Across the plains around Lerida, the northeastern Spanish town where they spent weekends, farmers were turning over their fields to photovoltai...
DATE: Oct 20, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) — Bank of America Corp. said yesterday it lost $7.65 billion during the third quarter due to a charge related to credit and debit card reform legislation passed over the summer.
The bank also announced a change in its consumer banking s...
DATE: Oct 20, 2010
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Stevedoring Services Ltd. dropped 34.3 percent ($2.35) on The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) yesterday.
The transportation company traded 1,000 shares to close at $4.50.
The Ascendant Group Ltd., however, rose 1.72 percent (25 cents) to $14.75, with 1,...
DATE: Oct 20, 2010
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Bermuda-based Teekay Corporation announced that it has signed a new fixed-rate contract with Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) to provide a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit for the Tiro and Sidon fields located in the Santos Ba...
DATE: Oct 20, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) — Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s earnings easily beat analysts' forecasts again, but the bank saw a big slowdown in trading, its most profitable business.
Net income after paying preferred dividends fell 43 percent from the year-ago period ...
DATE: Oct 20, 2010
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"Witterers", "emmobilisers" and "crampers" are the new Silver Surfers who have embraced social networking sites more than their bus passes, according to new research by Oddfellows. Witterers; those who use Twitter to gossip, emmobilisers; those who a...
DATE: Oct 20, 2010
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The Bermuda Democratic Alliance (BDA) has hit out at Government over its handling of the economy and called for a change in the way import duty is imposed on retailers to offer some relief in light of the latest set of retail sales figures.
Michael F...
DATE: Oct 20, 2010
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - US stocks rose to a five-month high, led by financial shares, after Citigroup Inc.'s earnings topped estimates and an unexpected drop in industrial production added to signs the Federal Reserve will help fuel the recovery.
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DATE: Oct 19, 2010
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Persistent, loud noise in the workplace more than doubles the risk for heart disease, Canadian researchers say. Among those at highest risk are younger men who smoke, which by itself is a risk factor for heart disease, the study authors noted.
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DATE: Oct 19, 2010
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