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It was a day of mixed fortunes for the utilities sector on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday, with Belco Holdings Ltd. advancing 50 cents (2.38 percent) and Watlington Waterworks Ltd. falling $1 (7.14 percent).
Belco ende...
DATE: Jul 03, 2008
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — UnitedHealth Group Inc. cleared its decks of bad news yesterday, announcing a lower profit outlook, a restructuring that will trim 4,000 jobs and a $900 million payout to settle a class-action lawsuit over options backdating.
Unite...
DATE: Jul 03, 2008
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Bermuda's chances of qualifying for next year's Twenty20 World Cup in England are likely to get a big boost later today when the International Cricket Council votes on Zimbabwe's future in the game.
While the ICC board, which is currently meeting in ...
DATE: Jul 03, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street resumed its sell-off yesterday after oil hit a new record and a bearish analyst report renewed concerns that General Motors Corp. (GM) could run out of cash.
The stock market's pullback, which accelerated in the final hour...
DATE: Jul 03, 2008
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Reinsurance companies may have a harder time recapitalising than they have done in the past, if the industry has to pay out heavily for a major catastrophe this year.
That was one of the conclusions of a report by global brokers Willis Group, which s...
DATE: Jul 02, 2008
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Banking and insurance were among the busiest sectors on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
Butterfield Bank's share value rose 10 cents (0.67 percent) to $14,90, with 10,400 shares traded, while Bermuda Commercial Bank Lt...
DATE: Jul 02, 2008
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Pirates loot fishing boats off Guyana, leave crews adrift
GEORGETOWN (AP) — Sea pirates hijacked and robbed two local fishing boats off the coast of violence-wracked Guyana a day after top officials called for tougher penalties to stem maritime pirac...
DATE: Jul 02, 2008
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WASHINGTON — George W. Bush's presidency seems exhausted and irrelevant, but that's a dangerous illusion.
The Decider remains in command of the world's most advanced and powerful military force, and he has just a few months to tie up what he might co...
DATE: Jul 02, 2008
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LONDON (Reuters) — A film enthusiast has discovered a long lost interview with Beatles from 1964 which has not been broadcast since.
Richard Jeffs came across 64 canisters of film stored in a damp garage in South London, and when he started to go thr...
DATE: Jul 02, 2008
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The Bermuda Hogges head to North Carolina today to take on the Wilmington Hammerheads at Legion Sports Complex with the sides seperated by a solitary point in USL Division II.
The Hogges, who have already beaten their hosts this season 2-0 at the Nat...
DATE: Jul 02, 2008
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