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Shares valued at $388,348.50 were traded on the Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange pushing the Index 9.71 higher (0.20 percent) to reach 4,912.77 at the end of the day.Shares of HSBC Holdings and insurance company BF&M both improved by 50 cents. ...
DATE: Jan 26, 2007
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Former Deputy Premier Jerome Dill is to retire from private law practice after 21 years with Appleby Hunter Bailhache as he seeks to move into the world of business.
The partners of Appleby Group have announced Mr. Dill will be leaving as of March 31...
DATE: Jan 26, 2007
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WASHINGTON (AP) — After a five-year boom, the US housing market cooled considerably in 2006 with existing home sales falling by the largest amount in 17 years.While the worst may be over, the rebound could be slow in coming, analysts said, given a co...
DATE: Jan 26, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks suffered their biggest pullback in two months Thursday, with the Dow Jones industrials logging a triple-digit decline as a lacklustre home sales report and a disappointing bond auction halted the market’s two-day rally.The mark...
DATE: Jan 26, 2007
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Hedge funds do it. Hungarian homeowners do it. Even Japanese housewives do it. They all make the so-called carry trade one of the biggest in global finance. It involves borrowing low-yielding assets in one currency and investing the proceeds in highe...
DATE: Jan 26, 2007
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Shares valued at $388,348.50 were traded on the Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange pushing the Index 9.71 higher (0.20 percent) to reach 4,912.77 at the end of the day.
Shares of HSBC Holdings and insurance company BF&M both improved by 50 cents....
DATE: Jan 26, 2007
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DETROIT (Reuters) — General Motors Corp. said it would delay its fourth-quarter statement and restate four years of past results because of an accounting error dating back to the end of 2001.The world’s largest automaker also said it had expected to ...
DATE: Jan 26, 2007
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DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Some of the world’s most powerful business executives called on trade negotiators and politicians yesterday to agree on a new global trade treaty, saying failure would mean more than lost commercial opportunities.The Interna...
DATE: Jan 26, 2007
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Bermuda reinsurer PartnerRe Ltd. yesterday announced that claims relating to its exposure to winter storm Kyrill, which battered Europe last week, are expected to be between $50 million and $65 million.
Kyrill battered the UK, France, the Netherlands...
DATE: Jan 26, 2007
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DEARBORN, Michigan (AP) — Ford Motor Co. lost a staggering $12.7 billion in 2006 — an average of $1,925 for every car and truck it sold.The company that invented the assembly line and whose name was a byword for the auto industry warned it will blee...
DATE: Jan 26, 2007
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