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Sometimes — especially when a bear market awakens from its hibernation — investors begin to feel the urge to take a flier on a higher-risk mutual fund.
Which can be OK. Having a very small portion of your holdings in speculative choices can be accept...
DATE: May 01, 2010
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Digicel has expanded its business empire with the launch of a new state-of-the-art store in the heart of the North East Hamilton Economic Empowerment Zone (EEZ).
The mobile phone provider, which officially opened its doors in Court Street yesterday w...
DATE: Apr 30, 2010
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Butterfield Bank investors were given an insight into the bank's rights share offering at a meeting held by its management team at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess yesterday.
It was the first opportunity shareholders had to grill CEO Bradford Kopp and ...
DATE: Apr 30, 2010
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LONDON (AP) — Books, music and games retailer HMV Group said yesterday that sales fell by seven percent in the 16 weeks to April 24 though the company achieved a small gain for the full year.
HMV said total sales for the year are up 1.4 percent, but ...
DATE: Apr 30, 2010
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LONDON — Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca PLC yesterday reported that first-quarter profit rose by 29 percent, but cautioned that comparisons will be tougher in the second half of the year when a key patent expires.
For the three mont...
DATE: Apr 30, 2010
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The new owners of Bermuda Commercial Bank Ltd. yesterday announced an agreement to buy First Bermuda Group Ltd.
Permanent Investments Ltd. (PIL), which acquired a 54 percent controlling interest in BCB earlier this month, announced the deal yesterday...
DATE: Apr 30, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks have surged higher after another series of upbeat earnings reports and a reading on unemployment provided more evidence of an improving economy.
The Dow Jones industrials rose 122 points yesterday after the Labour Department sa...
DATE: Apr 30, 2010
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Euro zone governments could end up footing a bill of half a trillion euros ($650 billion) to rescue several countries if they fail to engineer a bailout of Greece that calms financial markets, economists estimate.
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DATE: Apr 30, 2010
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Butterfield Bank's common shares fell 6.89 percent (10 cents) to $1.35 on The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) yesterday.
The bank traded 71,400 shares during the day, as well as seeing 528,994 rights issue shares change hands, but their share price held...
DATE: Apr 30, 2010
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Allen Stanford's alleged Ponzi scheme will be just one of the topics up for debate at a high profile seminar held in Bermuda next month.
Goldberg Segalla LLP will be hosting the event entitled 'From Claim to Conclusion: Examining Insurance/Reinsuranc...
DATE: Apr 30, 2010
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