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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc said quarterly earnings surged 33 percent on strong trading results, trouncing expectations and continuing an extraordinary rebound from the near meltdown of the US banking industry last fall.
Just nine mo...
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Premier Ewart Brown told the US he had the power to bring the Uighurs to Bermuda without the UK's permission, according to a British Government Minister.
Lord Malloch-Brown, a Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), told the ...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — HSBC Holdings Plc and a Cayman Islands-based hedge fund were sued by the trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff's business over claims they withdrew $578 million in "fake" profit from the con man's firm before it collapsed.
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Premier Ewart Brown received a letter of thanks on behalf of Bermuda for agreeing to resettle four Uighurs from US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
In the letter, Secretary Clinton wrote: "I hope that your courageous action will inspire oth...
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(Bloomberg) — The layer of ice over the Arctic Ocean has thinned "dramatically" this decade, with its thin seasonal blanket for the first time making up a bigger portion of the total ice than the thicker, older coat, a study said.
Scientists from Nas...
DATE: Jul 15, 2009
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Bermuda's under-19 rugby team finished their first international tournament with a bang, thumping Guyana 78-0 to win the Bowl Trophy at the Caribbean Championships in Cayman.
In what was supposed to be a close game the Island's youngsters got off to ...
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SEATTLE (Bloomberg) - Microsoft Corp., struggling for years to challenge Google Inc., says users are warming up to its Bing Internet search engine.
The first signs of a shift came in March at a confidential preview of Bing for analysts and partners, ...
DATE: Jul 15, 2009
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — Former Tyco International Ltd. executives Dennis Kozlowski and Mark Swartz, convicted in 2005 of defrauding shareholders of more than $400 million, agreed to be barred from serving as officers or directors of a public company...
DATE: Jul 15, 2009
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Butterfield Bank was again the busiest trader on The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) yesterday.
The bank's common shares were up five cents (0.96 percent) at $5.15, with 278 shares traded.
It also saw a total of 100 preference shares change hands as the...
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Hamilton’s electors go to the polls tomorrow in what could be the last Corporation election ever with Government seemingly bent on scrapping the institution which is more than two centuries old. And the three-way mayoral battle could see history made...
DATE: Jul 15, 2009
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