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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar looks set for a pullback after its recent charge to a six-month high as investor euphoria over upbeat data meets the hard reality of the global economy's ongoing problems.
But analysts said the currency's downs...
DATE: May 11, 2009
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Boy, talk about opening a can of words ... last week's comments on problems using Bermuda credit cards in England brought more than 20 responses. We'll get to them next week - with apologies to readers who were expecting to see their letters in print...
DATE: May 09, 2009
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When the medicine cabinet is bare, it is time to go shopping. Cash-rich pharmaceutical companies that find they're running short of blockbuster drugs have decided it makes more sense to shop for another company with attractive products than to resear...
DATE: May 09, 2009
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Butterfield Bank bounced back from its recent decline, rising 14.28 percent (50 cents) to $4 on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
The bank, which on Thursday posted a $20.8 million net loss for the first quarter, traded ...
DATE: May 09, 2009
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While it perhaps can be said that genetically all women are created equally, not all women are treated equally.
Even in this time and place on our planet, it is still not the greatest world out there for millions of women (and mothers).
There are rec...
DATE: May 09, 2009
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Spring has arrived and everyone is fed up talking about the greatest depression since the 1930s. So now there are "green shoots" everywhere.
On one day last week, Bloomberg carried 118 articles and research reports from many sources in which the most...
DATE: May 09, 2009
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England stepped up its campaign to boost the struggling British economy, raising the size of its asset purchase programme on Thursday in a surprise move tantamount to printing an extra £50 billion ($76 billion) to get b...
DATE: May 08, 2009
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NEW YORK (AP) — The government told investors yesterday what they've known since the crisis began: Some banks are healthier than others.
The Federal Reserve said Bank of America Corp. needs $33.9 billion in capital; Wells Fargo & Co. needs $13.7 bill...
DATE: May 08, 2009
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Banks need to show they are willing to open up and extend credit to consumers and corporations before the financial markets and economy starts to fully recover.
That is the view of Craig Rimer, president of Cidel Financial Group and director of Argus...
DATE: May 08, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Assured Guaranty Ltd., the bond insurer backed by billionaire Wilbur Ross, posted its second net profit in seven quarters as it increased its market share and benefited from a new accounting standard.
First-quarter net income ...
DATE: May 08, 2009
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