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Our government warned again this auspicious week, the week of Labour Day that Bermuda is not out of the woods relative to this global economic recession.
They are calling it the Mancession in the United States, a term coined by the Los Angeles Times....
DATE: Sep 12, 2009
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Q. Why would you choose an exchange-traded fund instead of a mutual fund? — A.R., via the Internet
A. It offers trading immediacy and the ability to target a specific investment area.
An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is priced on an exchange throughout ...
DATE: Sep 12, 2009
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Butterfield Bank was the only issuer to see trading activity on the Bermuda Stock Exchange yesterday.
A total of 59,500 of the bank's shares changed hands, as the share price remained unchanged on $5.
The Royal Gazette / BSX Index remained unchanged ...
DATE: Sep 12, 2009
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Money is a curious thing. In and of itself, it's meaningless. What makes it work is a communal confidence trick. It's a little like walking on a tightrope across Niagara Falls: as long as you don't look down, everything's fine. When you do, all bets ...
DATE: Sep 12, 2009
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks rose, completing a second-straight weekly gain, as commodity producers rallied after industrial production in China and consumer confidence in the US increased more than economists predicted.
Goldcorp Inc., the s...
DATE: Sep 12, 2009
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LONDON - Britain's leading share index closed at its highest level in almost a year, as gains in miners and banks helped push the index above the 5,000 mark on hopes of a recovery in the global economy. The FTSE 100 closed up 0.48 percent or 23.79 po...
DATE: Sep 12, 2009
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NEW YORK (AP) — Investors pulled money out of stocks yesterday after a five-day rally left the market at its highest levels in nearly a year.
Stocks slipped in quiet trading yesterday after the recent string of gains and a drop in oil prices. Crude s...
DATE: Sep 12, 2009
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Contrite US Securities and Exchange Commission officials apologised for bungling five probes that should have uncovered Bernard Madoff's $65 billion fraud and pledged to overhaul the way the agency operates.
A scathing report i...
DATE: Sep 11, 2009
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England left interest rates at a record low of 0.5 percent for the sixth month running yesterday and stuck with its programme of asset purchases to steer the economy towards recovery.
Most analysts had predicted the sta...
DATE: Sep 11, 2009
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Local stocks remained unchanged for a third successive trading day on the Bermuda Stock Exchange.
Butterfield Bank's preference shares saw the bulk of yesterday's trading activity, with 80 of the shares changing hands, as the price remained unchanged...
DATE: Sep 11, 2009
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