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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street ended an extraordinary and record-setting week yesterday by surging higher again, sending the Standard & Poor's 500 index past a trading high set in March 2000 and thrusting the Dow Jones industrial past 13,900 for the fir...
DATE: Jul 14, 2007
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A pend change to a popular credit scoring system is about to it make it much harder for people to polish their credit by riding the coattails of someone else's good payment record.Fair Isaac Corp., the creator of the widely used FICO credit scoring f...
DATE: Jul 14, 2007
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Butterfield Bank's share price on the Bermuda Stock Exchange closed to within a point of its all-time high and equalled its 52-week record yesterday.
Its shares rose by 50 cents (0.8 percent) to finish on $61.50 after trading 2,800 shares.
The only o...
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TORONTO (Reuters) — The main index of the Toronto Stock Exchange rallied 140 points yesterday, hitting a record high close on strong energy and resources shares and the blockbuster takeover of Alcan Inc.The S&P/TSX composite index surged 140.5 points...
DATE: Jul 14, 2007
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Is an RFID identifying you? Continuing on our discussion of last week regarding the RFID chip technology that is being embraced wholeheartedly by governments, medical, and retail industries. RFID's (radio frequency identification devices) can be used...
DATE: Jul 14, 2007
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RECEIVED a letter from a reader as follows: "I was surprised that a few weeks ago you used the hoary old chestnut that in retirement one's income needs to be 65 percent of one's income at the date of retirement."Surely this is such a generalisation t...
DATE: Jul 14, 2007
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IF you can't depend on your home equity increasing, where do you turn for growth? US bonds offer cold comfort. With ultra-safe six-month Treasury Bills yielding as much as five percent, your real return is paltry after inflation and taxes.What about ...
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LONDON — Britain's leading shares ended up 1.3 percent, with miners rising after Rio Tinto signed a cash deal to buy Canada's Alcan, and oil stocks were lifted as crude rose to an 11-month high. The FTSE 100 closed at 6,697.7 points, up 82.6 or 1.25 ...
DATE: Jul 13, 2007
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Shares of British Airways Plc, Europe's third-largest carrier, rose 5.3 percent as Spain's Iberia Lineas Aereas de Espana SA agreed to open its books to a group including the London-based airline.Shares of British Airways rose 22...
DATE: Jul 13, 2007
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LONDON (AP) — Pop superstar Prince has angered the music industry and stirred up trouble among British retailers by giving away his new album for free with a tabloid newspaper this weekend.Prince's decision to hand out "Planet Earth" to anyone who bu...
DATE: Jul 13, 2007
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