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LONDON - Britain's top share index fell sharply to a two-month closing low as euro zone debt contagion fears grew, hurting banks, and with miners hit by an Australian mining tax and concerns over tightening in China. The FTSE 100 closed down 142.18 p...
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WASHINGTON — Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay $450,000 to settle regulators' allegations that it violated a rule related to short-selling of stocks in 2008-2009, it was announced yesterday.
The banking company did not admit or deny wrongdoing in payin...
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WASHINGTON (AP) – People with severe asthma are getting a radically different treatment option: A way to snake a wire inside their lungs and melt off some of the tissue that squeezes their airways shut.
Bronchial thermoplasty isn't for everyone, just...
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Bermuda reinsurer Maiden Holdings Ltd. last night reported first quarter 2010 net income of $13.6 million — up 3.6 percent from the same period of last year.
Net written premium totalled $311.3 million, compared with $336.5 million in the first quart...
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Britain will face the sort of budget-cutting measures endured by Greece after tomorrow's general election, provoking "widespread resistance" by UK workers, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers said.
"We pled...
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PENNSYLVANIA (Bloomberg) — Hershey Co. CEO David J. West reiterated that he's open to acquisitions overseas, saying the candy maker has learned from its scrapped plans to bid for the UK's Cadbury Plc.
"We have a better understanding of what we would ...
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Bailey's Bay batsman Stephen Outerbridge is confident his men have what it takes to close the gap on the top sides this season, and even go as far as lifting the Premier Division 50-overs league title.
The side had a relatively quiet off season compa...
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When Britain joined what was the European Economic Community, Prime Minister Edward Heath told diplomats from Australia, Canada and New Zealand over dinner that Europe would become a superpower and put the United States in the shade.
The Canadian env...
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A former Opposition MP has been chosen to try to win back Hamilton South for the United Bermuda Party at the next general election.
Allan Marshall, 55, told a press conference at John Smith's Bay yesterday that the dismal state of the economy had pro...
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Riding on the success of last year's Mother's Day show, comedian Nadanja Bailey decided to offer a follow up.
"Over the past year, so many women stopped me on the street asking if I was doing a show, because they really enjoyed themselves last year,"...
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