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BY all accounts, the world’s investors are uncommonly optimistic heading into 2007. Reports and surveys of every description say the economy will keep growing, inflation and interest rates are in good shape — and stock prices are a sure bet to rise i...
DATE: Dec 30, 2006
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Want to manage your money better in 2007? Maybe it’s time to learn your lessons the old-fashioned way — through constant repetition and public humiliation.
That’s where your refrigerator comes in. Not only do you visit it regularly, but it’s also the...
DATE: Dec 30, 2006
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street slipped lower yesterday, closing out a year that will be remembered for the stock market’s great comeback — a year-end rally that pushed the Dow Jones industrials past 12,000 for the first time.By all accounts, 2006 ended ...
DATE: Dec 30, 2006
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Resolved: I’m going to save more money, pay down my debt, check my credit report, improve my job prospects and review my life insurance. For those too lazy to come up with their own financial resolutions for the new year, these are the recommendation...
DATE: Dec 30, 2006
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TORONTO (Reuters) — The Toronto Stock Exchange’s main index finished flat in the year’s last trading day yesterday, capping a week of winning sessions and marking another year of double-digit percentage gains.The S&P/TSX composite index lost 1.15 poi...
DATE: Dec 30, 2006
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Another year about to end means another chance to start afresh economically, and we’ll get to that in a second. But first, I absolutely must say this:I bumped into the Premier at a local watering hole last week. “Hello, squire,” I said, in the classi...
DATE: Dec 30, 2006
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The Pickled Onion restaurant is to close for at least two months to undergo a “night-and-day” transformation, say its owners Island Restaurant Group Ltd (IRG).
The New Year’s Eve celebrations will mark the end of the current interior design of the po...
DATE: Dec 29, 2006
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — US property casualty insurers used the lowest proportion of premiums for expenses and claims in two decades after losses plunged last quarter because of calmer weather.Insurers used 90.6 cents of every $1 in premiums collected ...
DATE: Dec 29, 2006
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street stalled yesterday after a battery of reports indicated the economy is stronger than expected and raised concerns that the Federal Reserve might be more aggressive about interest rates next year.There has been speculation i...
DATE: Dec 29, 2006
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange fell 0.39 percent yesterday as two banks lost value.
Bermuda Commercial Bank (BCB) fell 75 cents to close at $8.50 — a drop of 8.1 percent in the share price — as 300 shares traded. Meanwhile Butterfield Bank ...
DATE: Dec 29, 2006
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