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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Manhattan apartment sales jumped 80 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, reaching the highest level since 2008, as the city's job market improved.
About 2,750 condominiums and cooperative apartments sold in the pe...
DATE: Jul 02, 2010
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greece's biggest labour union yesterday called a new nationwide strike for next week to protest proposed reforms to the debt-hobbled country's pension and labour systems.
The GSEE private sector umbrella union said it had timed ...
DATE: Jul 02, 2010
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The HWP Group has announced the launch of a new automotive discount scheme for Bermuda Industrial Union (BIU) members to help them in these tough economic times.
The company, which already has a number of BIU members on its books, has extended its di...
DATE: Jul 02, 2010
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Bermuda-based Torus Insurance Holdings yesterday completed the acquisition of Glacier Insurance AG from the Glacier Group.
The Liechtenstein-headquartered specialty insurer, which has branch offices in Zurich, Cologne and London, will be renamed Tor...
DATE: Jul 02, 2010
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Google to buy travel software company for $700M
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google Inc. plans to buy travel technology company ITA Software Inc. in a $700 million deal that would enable t...
DATE: Jul 02, 2010
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BERLIN (AP) - The European Central Bank said yesterday it is lending 111.2 billion euros ($136.7 billion) to banks in a six-day tender, completing an effort to smooth over the expiry of a record batch of loans.
The ECB said 78 banks subscribed to the...
DATE: Jul 02, 2010
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Bermuda-based CRM Holdings has been targeted in a lawsuit by New York state as Governor David Paterson signalled his intent to tighten up control of the use of self-insured trusts in the Empire State.
A report by Insurance Journal dated June 30, 2010...
DATE: Jul 02, 2010
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil fell more than three percent to below $73 a barrel yesterday, its biggest one-day slide in nearly four weeks, as weak manufacturing data from China and the US fueled concerns about economic growth.
China's manufacturing in Ju...
DATE: Jul 02, 2010
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Strategic risks pose the biggest threats to companies' existence — but bosses are struggling to find effective ways of managing those risks.
That was the message from William Montanez, director of risk management at Ace Hardware, an international com...
DATE: Jul 01, 2010
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Jonathan Kent
The financial industry may have contributed significantly to the economic crisis but despite the inherent risks and problems associated with it there are also a number of opportunities to be had within the capital markets in the future.
That is the v...
DATE: Jul 01, 2010
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