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JOHANNESBURG (Bloomberg) - Aquarius Platinum Ltd., a Bermuda-based producer of platinum and palladium, said miners at its Everest operation in South Africa returned to work yesterday, ending a strike that started on Wednesday following the death of a...
DATE: Nov 30, 2007
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CHICAGO (AP) — Sears Holdings Corp. reported a 99 percent drop in third-quarter profit yesterday on weak sales at its Sears and Kmart department stores and continuing investment losses under hedge-fund manager chairman Eddie Lampert. Its stock plumme...
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Bermuda's insurance and reinsurance companies employ over 9,000 Americans and indirectly generate an estimated 95,045 jobs in the US, according to a new study released by the Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers.
Some of the key findings we...
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The Bermuda Regiment is to launch a campaign to recruit more female volunteers to join its ranks.
In newspaper adverts to run ahead of January's annual recruit camp, 18 to 30-year-olds will be urged to consider the challenge of a military career.
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I'm sitting writing this on our waterfront cottage porch with a Utopian, 180-degree view of Lake Tahoe stretched out before us . . . and it's all thanks to an AAA (American Automobile Association) guidebook purchased for 50 cents at an exceptional No...
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LONDON (Reuters) - The bell has sounded for round two. After treating the credit crunch as a financial, not economic threat, investors are now pricing in everything from a significant global slowdown to a full-fledged growth recession.
Suddenly, as w...
DATE: Nov 30, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Discount broker E-Trade Financial Corp. disclosed yesterday it is getting a $2.5 billion capital infusion from a group led by Citadel Investment Group and said Mitchell H. Caplan has stepped down as its chief executive.
Shares of the ...
DATE: Nov 30, 2007
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom said yesterday Ukraine would pay more for gas in 2008, but negotiations would determine the price.
Gazprom has agreed to raise the current price it pays for gas from Turkmenistan of $100 per 1,...
DATE: Nov 30, 2007
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Environment Minister Neletha Butterfield yesterday officially opened the Purvis Primary School Wonderland Farm and Playground.
The school applied for an environmental grant that would help it in upgrading the school grounds and yesterday Ms Butterfie...
DATE: Nov 30, 2007
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The Bermuda Diabetes Association's (BDA) current programme promoting public awareness of the prevalence of diabetes in the island was boosted this week by the Eva Richardson Missionary Society of Allen Temple AME Church, Somerset.
The Society present...
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