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LONDON (AP) — Barclays Group PLC unveiled a £1.3 billion ($2.7 billion) writedown for losses on securities linked to the US subprime mortgage market collapse — less than had been feared — in a surprise trading update yesterday.
Barclays, which was no...
DATE: Nov 16, 2007
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If catastrophes next year cause the formation of a "Class of 2008" of new insurance companies, not all of them would be formed in Bermuda, according to a panellist at yesterday's PricewaterhouseCoopers and Standard & Poor's Bermuda Insurance 2007 con...
DATE: Nov 16, 2007
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The Bank of Bermuda is doing its bit for the environment by joining in with the launch of HSBC's innovative new Climate Change fund.
The HSBC GIF Climate Change fund will invest in companies that are considered best placed to benefit from addressing,...
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Evoking Depression-era memories, Wells Fargo & Co. President John Stumpf yesterday became the latest banker to predict continuing difficulties in the US housing market as risky mortgages made to overextended borrowers disintegrat...
DATE: Nov 16, 2007
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@rh18bold:Today in History
Today is Friday, November 16, the 320th day of 2007. There are 45 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1776, British troops captured Fort Washington in New York during the American Revolution.
In 1885, Canadian rebel lead...
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Dear Annie: I work in a large high school. Our dress code is fairly relaxed, but we are expected to show good taste — nothing skimpy, no short skirts, no underwear showing, etc.
This unwritten code is followed by most of the employees, with the glari...
DATE: Nov 16, 2007
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Environment Minister Neletha Butterfield said yesterday that Government was taking a "very precautionary approach" to plans by a US company to dump iron ore in the sea in a money-making bid to combat global warming.
She spoke out after Weatherbird II...
DATE: Nov 16, 2007
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Sam Strangeways
SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) — Don Imus, fired in April by CBS Corp. for racially charged comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team, will simulcast his new radio programme on a television network targeting rural Americans.
Imus has r...
DATE: Nov 16, 2007
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Bermuda's national team will remain dormant during the next official window for international matches — although the Island's governing body insists friendly fixtures are around the corner.
The national team has not kicked a ball in anger since losin...
DATE: Nov 16, 2007
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Stephen Wright
You'd have to be a really little kid — we're talking young enough to be enthralled by colourful, shiny objects and oblivious to the necessity of character development — to want to hang out at "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium."
With wild hair and an an...
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