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Bermuda-based financial guarantor Primus Guaranty Ltd. yesterday announced a net loss of $918.5 million for the fourth quarter, citing turmoil in the credit markets.
The company, which provides around $22.5 billion in credit protection for clients, h...
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Today in History
Today is Thursday, Feb. 5, the 36th day of 2009. There are 329 days left in the year.
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In 1917, Congress passed, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, an immigration act severely curtailing the influx of Asians. Mexico's...
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LONDON (Reuters) - The pace of contraction in Britain's giant services sector eased last month but soaring job losses and crumbling consumer confidence kept intact expectations of another interest rate cut this week.
The Bank of England has already s...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - About $946 million has been recovered so far from the firm of accused swindler Bernard Madoff, the trustee overseeing the firm's liquidation said in court yesterday.
"It is our intention to designate those funds as customer prope...
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) - Canadian stocks gained for a second day as a rally in gold shares outweighed a decline in banks and insurers, after prices for bullion advanced on demand for the precious metal during the global economic slowdown.
Barrick Gold C...
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Government today claimed that false cheques had been created to imply that money had been paid to Government Ministers from the contractors on the Police/Court building.
Works and Engineering Minister Derrick Burgess said that his permanent secretary...
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January 14, 2009
Dear Sir.
This year when I attended the Bermuda Festival the M.C. Steve Harvey asked "where did all those chickens come from"? He said he didn't remember seeing them the last time he was here.
I also have a question. Where have all t...
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US President Barack Obama is struggling to get a handle on a series of embarrassing disclosures involving top appointees who are testing the limits of his pledge to end business as usual in Washington.
The withdrawal on Tuesday of Tom Daschle as his ...
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A building once used for illicit activity has been completely transformed by a grassroots organisation that provides free assistance to entrepreneurs.
Youth on the Move (YOM) was founded on the principle that the ability to achieve something positive...
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Dear Annie: My husband, "Rex," and I have been married for two years. Three months ago, his job required him to work in a town several hours away and he decided to get an apartment there. I had a feeling something was going on between him and a marri...
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