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Bermuda Aviation Services Ltd. fell five percent (25 cents) on The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) yesterday.
The transportation company's share price dropped to $4,75, with 1,200 shares traded.
The only other traders were Butterfield bank and the Ascen...
DATE: May 15, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks tumbled for a second day yesterday after concerns grew that the deep spending cuts under Europe's bailout plan would slow a global recovery.
The Dow Jones industrial average ended down 163 points but closed well off its lows of...
DATE: May 15, 2010
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LONDON - Britain's top shares slid as investors shunned banks, miners and commodity stocks in favour of safe havens such as the dollar and yen, fearing Eurozone debt problems will snuff out economic recovery.
The FTSE 100 ended down 170.88 points, or...
DATE: May 15, 2010
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LONDON (AP) — Telecommunications company BT Group PLC said yesterday it made a better-than-expected profit of £208 million ($310 million) during the three months through March as the company closed a year of sharp cuts in capital spending and underly...
DATE: May 14, 2010
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — HSBC Holdings Plc investors should scrutinise the bank's compensation plan before shareholders vote on the plan, the Association of British Insurers said.
The group, whose members own about 15 percent of all British publicly trad...
DATE: May 14, 2010
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ATHENS (Bloomberg) — Greece's unemployment rate rose to a six-year high in February as the economy contracted amid tax increases and spending cuts aimed at reducing the second-biggest budget gap in the European Union.
The number of people registered ...
DATE: May 14, 2010
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Butterfield Bank's $130 million rights offering was oversubscribed, the company announced yesterday.
The success of the biggest common share offering in Bermuda's history increases the proportion of the bank that is locally owned.
And it indicates th...
DATE: May 14, 2010
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LONDON (Reuters) - British money exchange offices have stopped selling 500 euro banknotes after police discovered the notes were being used almost exclusively by criminals, officials said yesterday.
Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) sai...
DATE: May 14, 2010
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The boss of a leading Bermuda investment firm believes the two "economic worlds" are forming in the aftermath of the global recession.
Robert Pires, chief executive officer of Bermuda Investment Advisory Services (BIAS), told investors at the firm's ...
DATE: May 14, 2010
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Building materials sales fell by more than a quarter in March, driving retail sales to another negative month.
But in most other retail sectors there were signs that the trend of falling sales of the past two years may be bottoming out.
Figures rele...
DATE: May 14, 2010
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