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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock exhange fell 112.20 (2.58 percent) last week to close Friday at 4,334.45.
Butterfield Bank shares saw the most trading in volume with 30,785 shares changing hands last week. Butterfield ended the week at $14.30, a $0.2...
DATE: Sep 15, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - MF Global Ltd., the world's largest broker of exchange-traded futures contracts, named Bernard Dan as its global chief operating officer.
Mr. Dan, former head of the Chicago Board of Trade, will oversee operations in more than ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Government officials and top Wall Street bankers continued talks yesterday in a harried effort to sell Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and avoid a collapse of the beleaguered investment bank that could severely disrupt global markets.
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Balancing your life and taking care of your body, mind and spirit will be the focus for a speech by ZBM news presenter Sangita Iyer at the 2008 Bermuda Business Women's Conference on Saturday.
Ms Iyer will be talking from first-hand experience of how...
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Bermuda-based Foster Wheeler Ltd. on Friday said its board of directors has authorised a common share repurchase programme.
Under the programme, the company is authorized to repurchase up to $750 million of its outstanding common shares.
"We have sta...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - US oil prices dropped more than $2 to a six-month low below $99 a barrel yesterday as dealers bet on a swift recovery of the nation's energy production after Hurricane Ike and the US government loaned oil to two refiners.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - American International Group Inc, left with deep financial scars from losses on guarantees it wrote to cover mortgage-linked securities, is expected to sell off assets, including a profitable aircraft leasing arm, the Wall Street...
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A book was published last week that I haven't read, and in fact wouldn't dream of reading. But I did read a review, which prompted a really good financial idea that I thought I might pass on.
The book is called "The Necklace: Thirteen Women and the E...
DATE: Sep 13, 2008
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If the entire globe adopted the same currency overnight, two things would happen: the trillion dollar-a-day foreign currency market would vaporise, along with the profits of thousands of banks and investment firms. Currency swings in values have got ...
DATE: Sep 13, 2008
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If you're thinking the stocks of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are bargains that may regain their highs of the glory days — be very careful. You may not win this bet.
I've seen it before, the stock of a troubled but venerable public company that once tr...
DATE: Sep 13, 2008
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