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These are eventful and tumultuous times in the financial markets as the deleveraging process continues. The US government is intervening extensively in the markets, aiming for a semblance of calm. Its actions may have prevented contagion, but they ha...
DATE: Sep 22, 2008
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Stocks tumbled across the board, not just globally and in the US, but on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) last week.
All sectors were hit, with banking taking a big loss, as Bermuda Commercial Bank Ltd. and Butterfield Bank fell b...
DATE: Sep 22, 2008
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Budding young Bermudian technology students got a boost in their computer careers from the Professional and Career Education Division of the Bermuda College (PACE) in achieving their ICDL certifications.
PACE helped three students achieve ICDL Comple...
DATE: Sep 22, 2008
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Safe-haven investments are suddenly sexy as shell-shocked investors look for protection from market turmoil, but a handful of stocks may actually benefit from the turbulence, strategists say.
While a dramatic US plan to tackle toxi...
DATE: Sep 22, 2008
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American International Group Inc. (AIG), which was bailed out by an $85 billion government loan on Tuesday night, not only has posted billions of dollars in losses in its financial services operations but its more traditional insurance operations are...
DATE: Sep 22, 2008
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The yen fell on Friday and was set for its worst one-day drop versus the dollar in over five months as steps by US authorities to boost morale in distressed financial markets revived global appetite for risky trades.
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DATE: Sep 22, 2008
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If your stock portfolio has been hit hard because you were too heavily invested in the financial sector, sob. If you acquired more debt than you can handle, holler.
Go ahead and get it out of your system. Then learn from all this mess.
What we are se...
DATE: Sep 20, 2008
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The Impact of the Unreality of the Highly Improbable ramped up over last weekend as events unfolded on Bloomberg through late on Sunday night, September 14.
Sleeping little, awake at 1am on Monday, seeing financial headlines three hours later, there ...
DATE: Sep 20, 2008
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Bermuda's banking sector was down again for the second straight day, as stocks fell on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
Bermuda Commercial Bank Ltd. dropped 35 cents (3.64 percent) to close at $9.25, with 1,000 shares t...
DATE: Sep 20, 2008
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On Monday, a six-year-old article about a bankruptcy filing by United Airlines reappeared by accident on Wall Street traders' screens as if it were fresh news, prompting a sell-off that wiped $1 billion off the company's market value in a matter of m...
DATE: Sep 20, 2008
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