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LONDON (Reuters) - British retail sales surged in January as consumers pounced on electrical bargains and stocked up for an early Easter — a sign that consumer demand has yet to feel the pinch from the global credit crunch.
Sterling jumped more than ...
DATE: Feb 22, 2008
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The island of Anguilla, so called from its snake-like form, is said to have been discovered and colonised by the English this year [1650]: it was filled with alligators and noxious animals, but the soil was good for raising tobacco and corn and the c...
DATE: Feb 22, 2008
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PARIS (AP) — Troubled French bank Societe Generale SA said yesterday that a $7 billion trading scandal and the credit crisis in financial markets led to a fourth-quarter net loss.
France's second-largest bank said it lost 3.35 billion euros ($4.91 bi...
DATE: Feb 22, 2008
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This is the full text of the Budget Statement delivered by Finance Minister Paula Cox in the House of Assembly yesterday:
To His Honour the Speaker and Members of the Honourable House of Assembly
Nelson Mandela: "Sometimes it falls upon a nation to ...
DATE: Feb 16, 2008
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Yesterday's Budget had plenty to excite and a fair bit to confuse with some pledges leading to more questions than answers.
Finance Minister Paula Cox said Government intended to encourage and to promote the importance of personal savings.
She added:...
DATE: Feb 16, 2008
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Government has again stressed the need for an office in London during this year's Budget statement.
Yesterday, Finance Minister Paula Cox announced the Cabinet Office had been allotted an additional $800,000 to establish a "representative office" in ...
DATE: Feb 16, 2008
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An expanding international business sector has fuelled the booming Bermuda economy, but growth is likely to slow down this year as global economic factors impact on the Island, Finance Minister Paula Cox said yesterday.
In her summary of the economic...
DATE: Feb 16, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - Yahoo! Inc., owner of the most visited US website, may seek to avoid a Microsoft Corp. takeover by combining Internet operations with News Corp.
The two companies are discussing a transaction, according to a person with knowled...
DATE: Feb 15, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - Bermuda-based Ingersoll-Rand Co., the maker of refrigerated truck equipment that's buying Trane Inc., said fourth-quarter profit fell 19 percent, hurt by a higher tax rate. Full-year profit may miss analysts' estimates because ...
DATE: Feb 15, 2008
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Two independent senators and the Opposition Senate Leader spoke of the need to modernise Bermuda's laws to promote good governance yesterday.
Sen. Walwyn Hughes welcomed calls for public access to information and said he would have liked to see a com...
DATE: Feb 14, 2008
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