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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index closed lower yesterday as gold miners fell on profit-taking, outweighing a rise in financials and general market optimism over an aid package for Greece.
Barrick Gold Corp, the world's biggest gold produ...
DATE: May 04, 2010
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Honda Motor Co. posted April US sales that missed analysts' estimates even as the auto market may have continued to strengthen.
Deliveries rose 6.4 percent from a year earlier at Detroit- ...
DATE: May 04, 2010
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HOUSTON (AP) – United Airlines has agreed to buy Continental in a $3 billion-plus deal that would create the world's largest carrier.
The new United would surpass Delta Air Lines in size, which should help it attract more high-fare business traveller...
DATE: May 04, 2010
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A majority of US workers do not clearly understand how to help their companies' meet objectives and most say they don't get useful feedback from supervisors, according to research released on last week.
One in four workers has a ...
DATE: May 04, 2010
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Telecommunications company KeyTech Ltd. experienced the largest fall in a busy week of trading that ended with the local stock market at its lowest level in 11 and a half years.
KeyTech, the owner of the Bermuda Telephone Company, slumped 90 cents, o...
DATE: May 03, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) — Burt Malkiel, a professor of economics at Princeton University, made his name giving investors no-nonsense advice in best sellers such as "A Random Walk Down Wall Street". He says investors and Wall Street traders need to remember som...
DATE: May 03, 2010
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Reinsurer Validus Holdings has estimated that its losses related to the sunken oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico will be between $38 million and $45 million.
Validus, which said on Friday that its estimate was based on an industry loss of around $1.3 bil...
DATE: May 03, 2010
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OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - As thousands of shareholders from around the world crowded into Omaha this weekend to attend Berkshire Hathaway Inc's annual meeting, many pondered the unthinkable — life after Warren Buffett.
Few chief executives are as s...
DATE: May 03, 2010
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Bermuda-based life reinsurer Scottish Re Group Ltd. announced net income of $2.3 billion for 2009, driven by sales of its businesses and other one-time items.
The company, which has stopped writing new business and is in run-off, announced the earnin...
DATE: May 03, 2010
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Finance ministers from the 16 countries that use the euro agreed yesterday on a financial rescue for Greece that will loan the struggling country 110 billion euros ($146 billion) over three years to keep it from defaulting on its debt...
DATE: May 03, 2010
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