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INTERVIEW-Banks to show regulators trade credit less risky
+ Banks fear new capital rules discourage trade finance
+ Trade finance registry to show low risk of instruments
+ Trade finance costs steadied, some exporters vulnerable
GENEVA, Jan 14 (Reut...
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index fell yesterday, hurt by weakening oil prices and by gold producers that failed to find support even though gold prices turned higher.
Miners Goldcorp and Barrick Gold were among some of the index's top o...
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britons defied the recession to splash out on laptops, TVs, food mixers and robotic hamsters at Christmas, but retailers fear cutbacks this year as real incomes are trimmed by taxes rise and unemployment.
Analysts rushed to upgrade...
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LONDON - Strength in miners helped Britain's top share index to a 0.5 percent rise by close after soaring output figures from Rio Tinto boosted the sector, but retailers fell on weak trading updates.
The FTSE 100 ended 24.72 points higher at 5,498.2 ...
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UPDATE 1-Seven years prison for U.S. lawyer in Refco fraud
+ Fraud caused collapse of commodities broker
+ Judge says sentence to deter other lawyers
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge sentenced a former outside lawyer for Refco Finance Holdings LLC t...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 10,700 for the first time in 15 months yesterday as investors bet that stronger results would revive a disappointing start to the corporate earnings season.
The stock market's advance was ...
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BEIJING (AP) – In China's first official response to Google's threat to leave the country, the government yesterday said foreign Internet companies are welcome but must obey the law and gave no hint of a possible compromise over Web censorship.
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WASHINGTON (AP) – A House of Representatives committee probing bailout deals has subpoenaed the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for correspondence from Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and other officials.
The House Oversight and Government Affai...
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LOM (Holdings) Ltd. has become the latest company to pull out of the Cayman Islands after announcing the reorganisation of its operations in the Caribbean.
The company said that following an exhaustive review of its regional business, it had decided ...
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Butterfield Bank traded 2,500 common shares on The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) yesterday.
The bank remained unchanged at $3.75.
KeyTech Ltd. also saw 300 shares change hands, but its share value held firm at $8.50, as did the Ascendant Group Ltd., w...
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