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(Bloomberg) — HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe’s biggest bank by market value, is seeking to increase revenue from trade between the US and UK by attracting 100 new corporate clients.HSBC plans to add staff to its so-called international business centres in...
DATE: Nov 20, 2006
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(The Wall Street Journal) — More people than ever are expected to shop online this holiday season, but Amazon.com Inc. and eBay Inc. are no longer the clear winners.The dominance of the two e-commerce giants is being chipped away by a new breed of on...
DATE: Nov 20, 2006
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(Bloomberg) — Shares of Ship Finance International Ltd., an oil-tanker owner that leases vessels to other companies, fell the most in more than 22 months after Citigroup Inc. said the stock may be overvalued.Shares of Bermuda-based Ship Finance fell ...
DATE: Nov 20, 2006
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Hugh Jackman has got to be the hardest-working man in show business this year between starring in the third ?X-Men? film, ?Scoop? and ?The Prestige? and voicing characters in the animated ?Flushed Away? and ?Happy Feet.?
But nothing could have requir...
DATE: Nov 20, 2006
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Any questions as to how Bermuda?s defence would cope in the absence of suspended team skipper Kentoine Jennings were well and truly answered in St. Michael?s, Barbados last night as the Island?s Digicel Cup hopes took a severe beating.
Bermuda showed...
DATE: Nov 20, 2006
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It was noted in the previous column that the US economy benefited from a confluence of positive technological developments that acted synergistically to enhance productivity growth from the mid-1990s.
However most of the benefits of those earlier cha...
DATE: Nov 20, 2006
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A “severe” new law aimed at helping Government recoup $27 million in unpaid taxes will make company directors and officers personally liable for outstanding sums.
The Taxes Management Amendment Act 2006 — which passed its third reading in the House o...
DATE: Nov 20, 2006
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Deputy Premier Paula Cox will be in London this week, coinciding with a visit by Premier Ewart Brown who is attending the annual Overseas Territories Consultative Council meetings in the UK capital. Finance Minister Cox will be meeting with British b...
DATE: Nov 20, 2006
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An off-shore bonding company has replaced the contractor that defaulted on the Boston-area Rte. 128 Winter Street bridge project, bringing on South Boston-based McCourt Construction.
McCourt is expected to take control of operations next month. Curre...
DATE: Nov 20, 2006
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Finance Minister Paula Cox’s announcement last week on the incentives that will be given to businesses in Northeast Hamilton is welcome, and a step in the right direction to encourage development in the area and to widen the benefits of business owne...
DATE: Nov 20, 2006
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