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A Repeat of the Same Old Pattern. It is true. Shopping habits and investment habits are diametrically opposed to one another, for many investors.
Consumption gumption: Your favorite stylish clothier or electronic store has a sale. You shop every aisl...
DATE: Oct 03, 2009
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WASHINGTON — It used to be that our personal finances were so uncomplicated — a simple bank account, 30-year mortgage, company pension.
That was then.
This is now: Our personal finances come with frustration, complication and financial products that ...
DATE: Oct 03, 2009
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Butterfield Bank's share price fell one percent yesterday, pulling local stocks slightly lower.
The bank finished the day's trading on the Bermuda Stock Exchange five cents lower to close on $4.95.
The bank's preference shares also traded, with 25 ch...
DATE: Oct 03, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — The US should lose its golden credit rating. Bankers and investors around the world should dump dollars. Read any economics textbook and you come to that conclusion.
Massive government spending and money creation to rescue the ...
DATE: Oct 03, 2009
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For a lark, I proposed marriage to a beautiful young woman this week. The deal I offered was that she'd have custody of the credit cards and I'd have someone to look after me in my old age. I knew she wouldn't take it seriously, but hey, all the clic...
DATE: Oct 03, 2009
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world's wealthiest nations risk harming "the goose that lays the golden egg" if they overtax businesses, Bermuda's finance minister said yesterday, adding that her island nation had surpassed other offshore centres in meeti...
DATE: Oct 02, 2009
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OTTAWA (Bloomberg) - Franklin Montross, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s General Re Corp., said more Bermuda-based reinsurers may combine after Validus Holdings Ltd. acquired IPC Holdings Ltd. for about $1.7 billion.
"Bermuda is logical," Mr. Mon...
DATE: Oct 02, 2009
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The Bermuda Monetary Authority yesterday published proposals on enhancing its insurance regulation to keep pace with tightening rules in the European Union.
The regulator posted three papers on its website on capital requirements, self-asessment of r...
DATE: Oct 02, 2009
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Finance Minister Paula Cox suspects the world's richest states may be working towards a "global corporate tax policy".
Speaking in an interview with Reuters last week, Minister Cox said she thought major economies were seeking "extra-territorial solu...
DATE: Oct 02, 2009
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain scrapped a tax on share transactions yesterday after the European Union's top court ruled it breaks EU law, leaving an already cash-strapped British treasury facing a huge refund bill from companies.
Europe's biggest bank, ...
DATE: Oct 02, 2009
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