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DALLAS (Bloomberg) - Crude oil rose to a five-week high as US retail sales climbed over the holiday season and China said its economy grew faster than estimated this year, signs the worst global recession since the Second World War is abating.
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DATE: Dec 29, 2009
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Bermuda retailers reported better than expected Christmas sales with a last-minute rush of shoppers through the doors to boost their bottom line.
Somers Cooper, managing director of AS Cooper & Sons Ltd., said that trading was good considering the di...
DATE: Dec 29, 2009
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DALLAS/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Jon Koehling has a job delivering pizzas in a Dallas suburb and that sets this 21-year-old apart from many of his American peers.
"I'm grateful I have a job I don't hate. I did about 15 to 20 applications and it took ...
DATE: Dec 29, 2009
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Age: 49
Position: Credit Administrator, Key Management Services Ltd.
What is your job? .
What is your favourite part of the job? Meeting people who come into the office, especially the senior citizens, who always seem to want to have a little chat wi...
DATE: Dec 29, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - US retail sales rose an estimated 3.6 percent this holiday season as online gift-buying, last-minute spending and an extra shopping day spurred a recovery from last year, the worst in four decades.
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DATE: Dec 29, 2009
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index ended a higher on Thursday, as stronger metals and energy prices boosted the index's resource sectors, while financial stocks rebounded from weakness in the previous session.
"Commodities are better, and...
DATE: Dec 28, 2009
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street is likely to make a strong showing in the final week of 2009 as the bulls gear up to toast the first annual advance for US stocks in two years on hopes of more economic stability in 2010.
The US stock market's resilie...
DATE: Dec 28, 2009
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HOUSTON (Bloomberg) - R Allen Stanford, the accused Ponzi mastermind, will not be released from jail before his fraud trial in 2011, a US judge ruled after reviewing a doctor's report that the financier is close to "a complete nervous breakdown".
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DATE: Dec 28, 2009
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A federal appeals court in New York has upheld a lower court's ruling that threw out a lawsuit alleging that failed Bermuda-based reinsurer PXRE Group Ltd. deceived investors in reporting 2005 hurricane losses, according to a report by Business Insur...
DATE: Dec 28, 2009
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar fell against the euro on Thursday, extending losses a day after a weak US housing report, as investors sought to lock in gains on the greenback's recent rally.
The dollar's losses were limited, though, after a separate...
DATE: Dec 28, 2009
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