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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street slumped after another reading on inflation deflated hopes the Federal Reserve will start moving toward an interest rate cut when it meets next week. The major indexes suffered moderate losses for the week.The inflation rea...
DATE: Mar 17, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — In 1995, the Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in economics to Robert Lucas, calling him “the economist who has had the greatest influence on macroeconomic research since 1970.”Lucas’s specific contribution wa...
DATE: Mar 17, 2007
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The Secret: Good Health Can Save you Money; Bad Health Won’t and may ultimately define your future lifestyle.
Eat your fruits and vegetables! Isn’t that what our mothers always said! Whether caused by our 21st century processed foods, sedentary ways,...
DATE: Mar 17, 2007
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For a second consecutive day the Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange remained unmoved at 4,997.38 with only 798 shares being traded on a light day of activity for the market.
Shares in three stocks were exchanged on Friday, with 500 shares of West...
DATE: Mar 17, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — The employment outlook isn’t generating nearly as many headlines as the subprime mortgage mess, but maybe it should. That’s because the job market is in pretty good shape, offering support to the economy when other factors are surely ...
DATE: Mar 17, 2007
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The discussion in these pages during the past few weeks on reverse mortgages has taught me a great deal about human nature. The underlying subject, of course, is inheritance. Despite having very firm views on the subject, I have concluded that there ...
DATE: Mar 17, 2007
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MUMBAI (Bloomberg) — HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe’s biggest bank by market value, said it will wait for India’s central bank to allow foreign lenders to buy control of local rivals before seeking alliances in the South Asian nation.
“As (the) policy fra...
DATE: Mar 16, 2007
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Orient-Express Hotels increased its revenue by $59.7 million to $492.8 million in 2006.
The Bermuda-registered company, famous for its romantic trans-Europe train route, saw a 13.8 percent increase in its total revenues during 2006, with increases ac...
DATE: Mar 16, 2007
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NEW YORK (Reuters) — House prices could tumble ten percent this year and force the United States into recession if a credit crunch taking shape in the mortgage market gathers steam, Merrill Lynch said in research notes this week.If correct, the prosp...
DATE: Mar 16, 2007
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A new type of cell phone that can double up as a walkie-talkie goes on sale in Bermuda next week.
The push-to-talk service is being introduced to the Island for the first time by CellularOne and allows customers to combine a normal cell phone with th...
DATE: Mar 16, 2007
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