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GALWAY, Ireland (Reuters) - Controversy over Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen's alcohol consumption overshadowed his efforts yesterday to reassure colleagues and voters that he is tackling the country's financial woes.
Fears that the former "Celtic T...
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SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., stepping up competition with Facebook Inc., will add a layer of social-networking features to its main products, chief executive officer Eric Schmidt said.
The changes will come in the fall of this year, Schmi...
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KeyTech Ltd. rose 4.25 percent (30 points) to $7.35 on The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) yesterday.
The utilities provider traded 14,000 shares during the day.
Overall the Index inched up 3.75 points (0.3 percent) to 1,271.01, with 14,00 shares worth ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — The makers of high fructose corn syrup want to sweeten its image with a new name: corn sugar.
The Corn Refiners Association applied yesterday to the federal government for permission to use the name on food labels. The group hopes a n...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Growth in Best Buy Co.'s expanding cell phone business helped the electronics retailer's second-quarter net income jump 60 percent, the company said yesterday.
Best Buy sounded an optimistic note about the holiday season and raised it...
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Argus Group Holdings Ltd.'s voluntary suspension of trading on the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) is to continue.
The suspension has lasted six weeks after the insurer and investment company said it had given insufficient notice of its Annual General M...
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DALLAS (AP) - The drilling moratorium enacted after the BP oil spill applies only to the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Yet energy exploration in the Gulf's shallow waters has come to a virtual standstill as drillers grapple with tougher US federal rules ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional investigators say the Iowa egg farm at the centre of a massive salmonella outbreak received hundreds of positive results for salmonella in the two years before its eggs sickened more than 1,500 people.
In a letter yest...
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NEW YORK (AP) - A September rally faltered on the stock market yesterday as worries returned about Europe's economy.
The Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500 index both closed with slight losses, breaking a four-day winning stre...
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SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) — Cisco Systems Inc., the largest maker of networking equipment, plans to initiate the company's first dividend this fiscal year.
The "current thinking" is for a dividend yield of one percent to two percent, according to a p...
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