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FIVE minutes ago, advisers barnacled to the investment industry were championing hedge funds as balm for the swollen deficits afflicting pension funds. Now, the purveyors of contradictory counsel have decided hedge-fund investments are more placebo t...
DATE: Feb 24, 2007
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FIRST, a word about Mr. George Scott, MP. What a man he is. When I think of what he has done for Bermuda, I cannot find the right words. And how correct he is about people in other countries respecting their politicians. No one in North Korea or Myan...
DATE: Feb 24, 2007
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange’s main index ended higher Friday as shares of energy companies rose along with the price of oil, while Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. added support.
The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 22.55 points, o...
DATE: Feb 24, 2007
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It is not just about the budget, it’s how you run your household or your country. It’s budget time again. Local residents looked last Friday to our government for assurance that our fiscal house is in order. For after all, the country of Bermuda is i...
DATE: Feb 24, 2007
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks notched the sixth record in eight days, led by commodity producers such as Petro-Canada and Kinross Gold, as crude oil prices climbed to the highest this year and gold completed a seven-week rally.
The Standard &...
DATE: Feb 24, 2007
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Securing work permits, term limit exemptions and visitor permits from the Department of Labour and Immigration is the biggest challenge faced by international business in Bermuda.
And the leader of the Association of Bermuda International Companies (...
DATE: Feb 23, 2007
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LONDON (AP) — HSBC Holdings PLC, which has warned of sub-prime lending trouble in the US, said yesterday that two top executives at its US business have left the company.Europe's largest bank said Bobby Mehta resigned as chief executive of HSBC North...
DATE: Feb 23, 2007
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. should pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.52 billion, a federal jury said, deciding the world’s biggest software maker used digital music technology without permission and handing down the largest patent ruling in history....
DATE: Feb 23, 2007
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A young Bermudian has set up his own “personal travel agency” offering clients the chance to book flights, hotels and excursions.
Kenneth Minors, who is based in Lexington, Kentucky, runs a franchise of a major travel company YTB Travel, of Illinois....
DATE: Feb 23, 2007
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HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) — Unionised workers at Harley-Davidson Inc.’s largest manufacturing plant overwhelmingly approved a new labour agreement yesterday, ending a strike that halted motorcycle production for three weeks.Eighty-three percent o...
DATE: Feb 23, 2007
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