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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Ingersoll-Rand Co. posted a fourth-quarter profit that beat analysts' projections, excluding some costs and an impairment charge, and said 2009 earnings will fall in line with estimates. The shares soared 13 percent.
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DATE: Feb 12, 2009
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LONDON (Reuters) - A top British financial regulator accused of ignoring risk warnings quit yesterday as politicians grilled leading bankers over the integrity of the financial system and the size of their pay packets.
James Crosby, the former chief ...
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index fell yesterday, dragged lower by the information technology sector as shares of Research In Motion (RIM) dropped on a profit warning.
The slide in technology stocks, down 5.4 percent, overcame strength i...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Citigroup Inc. chief executive officer Vikram Pandit said he will take a salary of $1 and no bonus until the bank, which has accepted $45 billion in government bailout money, returns to profitability.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England will probably have to ease monetary policy further to get the British economy growing again, and could start buying gilts as soon as next month to achieve that, Governor Mervyn King said yesterday.
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The boss of a construction firm named in the 'false cheques' scandal yesterday backed up claims cheques were doctored to imply the Premier and Works Minister received kickbacks.
Adlia Davy said Scorpio Construction was given a cheque for $14,780 by L...
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NEW YORK (AP) — New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo laid out further details yesterday about $3.6 billion in bonuses Merrill Lynch & Co. executives received, calling the investment bank's executives irresponsible.
Cuomo detailed the size and scope...
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The world's top diabetes experts are to hold a public forum this evening (Thursday) on the latest advancements in treatment of the disease.
Nine specialists from the UK, Europe and the US have been invited to the Island by the Bermuda Heart Foundatio...
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The outlook for the global economy will be the focus for a meeting hosted by Atlantica Intellectual Capital Ltd. next month.
The first ever Annual Global Financial Markets Outlook Conference is being held at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess Hotel on Ma...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Physician Kevin Brown, son of Premier Ewart Brown, has been ordered to stand trial on 33 counts of molesting female patients at Los Angeles medical clinics where he practised.
Yesterday's decision by Superior Court Judge William R....
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