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Bermuda-based investment firm WP Stewart & Co. Ltd. marked its 35th anniversary by announcing a net return of 33.7 percent for its clients in 2009.
The company has been through a difficult period in recent years, having posted some hefty losses as as...
DATE: Jan 20, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) - Investors moved back into stocks on hopes that an election in Massachusetts will weaken Senate Democrats and make it harder for President Barack Obama to make changes to health care.
The vote yesterday to fill the seat of late Senator...
DATE: Jan 20, 2010
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The fastest country in the world in terms of the Internet is South Korea, with an average broadband speed of 14.6 Mbps.
South Korea was followed by Japan, (7.9 Mbps), Hong Kong, Romania, Sweden and Ireland, according to the latest quarterly State of ...
DATE: Jan 20, 2010
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Business leaders and school principals met yesterday to discuss ways of turning around the Island's education system.
And the forum — a joint initiative between the Association of Bermuda International Companies (ABIC) and the Ministry of Education —...
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LONDON (Reuters) - Tough new rules for pubs and clubs — including a ban on drinking games like the infamous "dentist's chair" — will be introduced in Britain this year in a bid to curb a heavy drinking culture that costs the country billions of pound...
DATE: Jan 20, 2010
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Warren Buffett, who committed most of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shares to charity, is speeding the pace at which he reduces his ownership stake with the $26 billion takeover of railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.
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DATE: Jan 20, 2010
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock market index closed slightly higher yesterday as an uptick in bullion prices helped push up gold producers, but the move higher was offset by the drag of some falling blue chips.
The index's gold producing sub...
DATE: Jan 20, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) - US cell phone users have contributed more than $5 million in $10 increments to the Red Cross for Haiti disaster relief, by far the largest outpouring of support via mobile devices in history.
The response to the devastating earthquake...
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's inflation accelerated in December at a record pace, prompting worries that interest rates might rise sooner than expected, though the surge was largely due to an unflattering comparison with a year earlier.
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DATE: Jan 20, 2010
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Chaucer Holdings Plc, one of only three Lloyd's of London insurers based in the UK, is considering relocating overseas to reduce its tax bill.
"It's on our list of items to look at this year," chief executive officer Robert Stuch...
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