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WASHINGTON (AP) — Wary US employers slowed hiring in January, pushing the unemployment rate to a four-month high of 4.6 percent and giving jobseekers a bumpy start to the year.Still, the Labour Department’s employment report on Friday suggested the j...
DATE: Feb 05, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — The uncertainty that has at times waylaid Wall Street in the new year might be less of a factor in the coming week now that investors have been placated by generally good corporate earnings and upbeat comments from the Federal Reserve...
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LONDON — Health officials yesterday announced new restrictions on movement near a commercial farm where the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was found in turkeys, while authorities culled thousands of birds to contain the outbreak.People involved in th...
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Devonshire Cougars 5A four-goal, second-half blitz saw Devonshire Cougars cruise into the FA Cup quarter-finals at a wet and muddy Southampton Oval yesterday.
Not once were Cougars ever troubled by their hosts. And once skipper ...
DATE: Feb 05, 2007
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Colin Thompson
A 63-year-old grandmother celebrated her graduation from the General Education Development Program (GED) yesterday.
Alice Paynter, from Warwick, never completed her High School studies, but was inspired to return to education later in life by her gra...
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XL Capital Ltd. and Axis Capital Ltd. became the latest Bermuda reinsurers to announce estimated losses of tens of millions of dollars in claims resulting from European storm Kyrill.
XL estimated its pre-tax losses due to Kyrill to be in the range of...
DATE: Feb 05, 2007
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Jonathan Kent
Famous for his contraire approach to investments and looking in the opposite direction to “the herd” for money-making investment opportunities, Swiss-born Dr. Marc Faber delivered his brand of wisdom to an audience of money managers during a stop-off...
DATE: Feb 05, 2007
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Violent clashes between “town and country” gangs at the Berkeley Institute are leading parents to withdraw their children from the school, according to documents passed to The Royal Gazette.
A letter from Calvin White, chairman of the school’s board ...
DATE: Feb 05, 2007
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The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) Index climbed just over one percentage point last week to break through the 5,000-point barrier.
Driving those gains was the Bermuda Commercial Bank (BCB), whose share price rose 25.63 percent ($2.55) ...
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Accenture Ltd. is going Indian.
The Bermuda-based consulting firm last week said it would supplement the 27,000 workers it already has in India by hiring an additional 8,000 people there by August 31.
India will soon be Accenture’s biggest employee b...
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