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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canada's economy contracted a less- than-anticipated 0.1 percent in October as wholesalers processed fewer shipments of automobiles and factory production dropped.
Wholesaling declined 2.7 percent as automotive sales slipped "si...
DATE: Dec 29, 2008
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - As the US stock market heads into the last week of the year, what was inconceivable just 12 months ago is now a stark possibility: 2008 could be the worst year ever for Wall Street.
The US market's most tracked benchmark, the S&P...
DATE: Dec 29, 2008
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When it's over, I hope this recession will be known as the time when America lost its devotion to debt.
In my last online discussion of the year, I was again reminded of the damage debt has done to so many families. So as I often do, I'm answering so...
DATE: Dec 27, 2008
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Q: What gives with my Becton, Dickinson and Co. shares? I thought that its products were always needed. - BR, via the Internet
A: The world's largest manufacturer and distributor of surgical products makes items that are health-care staples.
Its surg...
DATE: Dec 27, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) - Retail gasoline prices tumbled yesterday to the lowest level in nearly four years. And while crude futures rose, analysts believed it was a temporary pause in an extended, downward arc as the recession spreads.
"We're paying about a b...
DATE: Dec 27, 2008
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The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) Index showed no change after no shares were traded on Christmas Eve. Investors obviously had their minds on other things as a shortened trading session saw no activity. The BSX Insurance Index of leadi...
DATE: Dec 27, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — US stocks rose, giving the Standard & Poor's 500 Index its first back-to-back gains in three weeks, after GMAC LLC's conversion to a bank spurred a rally in General Motors Corp. and oil's increase sent Exxon Mobil Corp. higher....
DATE: Dec 27, 2008
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HONG KONG (Bloomberg) — Asian stocks gained for a second day, led by technology companies, on speculation takeovers and higher memory-chip prices will help the industry overcome slowing economic growth. Russian shares swung between gains and losses.
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DATE: Dec 27, 2008
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Amid the doom and gloom of capital markets and dire economic prophecies, it may just be that our western world is undergoing a major philosophical shift: both in thought and in lifestyle. The very social structure that many have built their entire ca...
DATE: Dec 27, 2008
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I have this theory that today's is a ghost newspaper, one that few will see or read, because the entire population is gorged on tryptophan, alcohol and goodwill. This means I can write something obscure without damaging my reputation as a wit, or a h...
DATE: Dec 27, 2008
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