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BHP bets on crop boom with hostile Potash bid
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SYDNEY (AP) -- BHP Billiton's hostile $38.5 billion takeover offer for one of the world's bigges...
DATE: Aug 20, 2010
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LONDON (AP) — Female managers in Britain earn £10,000 ($15,600) a year less than their male counterparts, and at current rates will wait 57 years to achieve parity, according to a study released yesterday.
The research by the Chartered Management Ins...
DATE: Aug 20, 2010
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - American International Group Inc. (AIG), the insurer majority-owned by the US government, may sell bonds for the first time since it was rescued almost two years ago to help repay a $182.3 billion bailout.
AIG may also issue st...
DATE: Aug 20, 2010
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BEIJING (AP) — Lenovo Group, the fourth-largest personal computer maker, rebounded to a quarterly profit from a loss a year earlier, driven by strong sales in China and other emerging markets.
Profit was $55 million for the three months ending June 3...
DATE: Aug 20, 2010
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - Climate change may add 50 percent to the storm damage costs incurred by some Caribbean nations over the next two decades, said Swiss Reinsurance Co., the world's second-largest re-insurer.
Wind, storm surges and inland flooding a...
DATE: Aug 20, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks ended a seesaw day with a modest gain yesterday after investors found some pluses in retail earnings reports.
The Dow Jones industrial average and other major indexes fluctuated throughout the day before closing with slender ga...
DATE: Aug 19, 2010
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index ended higher yesterday as investors hoped for a higher bid for takeover target Potash Corp, while gold miners also rose.
Investors continued to fixate on developments in BHP Billiton's $39 billion offer ...
DATE: Aug 19, 2010
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Butterfield Bank shares surged ten percent in Bermuda Stock Exchange trading yesterday to lead local stocks higher.
The bank gained 15 cents to close the day on $1.65, on the trading of 21,600 shares.
That price represents a more than 35 percent prem...
DATE: Aug 19, 2010
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LONDON (AP) — The parent company of EMI Group PLC said yesterday it may need further equity injections over the next year as the music group continues to struggle under a debt burden despite big sellers from the Beatles and Katy Perry.
Maltby Capital...
DATE: Aug 19, 2010
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Independent Consulting Solutions Ltd (ICS) has been awarded the prestigious " HP Sales Rally 2009 Championship" by Hewlett Packard Company (HP).
ICS has beaten out competitors in the Bermuda Latin America region which includes Guatemala, The Dominica...
DATE: Aug 19, 2010
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