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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street ended a volatile week with a sharp decline yesterday as investors again succumbed to nervousness about souring subprime loans and rising oil prices. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 185 points.The steep pull...
DATE: Jun 23, 2007
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main dropped more than 100 points yesterday, as energy and resource issues gave up ground despite firmer commodity prices, and US rate and credit fears weighed on investors.The S&P/TSX composite index ...
DATE: Jun 23, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Blackstone Group LP, the investment firm known for making billion-dollar bets to buy huge companies and take them private, jumped almost 20 percent yesterday in its debut on the New York Stock Exchange.The New York-based buyout shop f...
DATE: Jun 23, 2007
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The Greeks considered ethics a moral philosophy employing right and wrong, good and evil, and responsibility for one's actions. Roget's thesaurus defines ethics as goals, morals, principles, standards, and values.
Individually, we develop a personal ...
DATE: Jun 23, 2007
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You may have read that the US savings rate for 2006 fell to a negative one percent. It was only the fourth time in recorded history, which is the last 100 years, that this has happened.
The previous three occasions are illustrative: 1932, 1933 and 20...
DATE: Jun 23, 2007
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Butterfield Bank shares moved off a 52-week high as the Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange slipped back 9.28 points (0.18 percent) to close at 5,153.58.
The bank shares lost 25 cents (0.4 percent) to close at $60.25 after 800 were traded.
Another...
DATE: Jun 23, 2007
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — The Bush administration opposed a proposed 10-year extension on the federal government's backstop for insurers of terrorism, saying the pledge to subsidise losses from another major attack should be phased out sooner.The admi...
DATE: Jun 22, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks lurched higher after a back-and-forth session as investors apparently set aside some interest rate concerns and took a dose of upbeat economic data at face value.The Philadelphia Federal Reserve said regional manufacturing in J...
DATE: Jun 22, 2007
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LONDON - British shares ended lower for the fourth day in a row, as global rates worries compounded by concerns of an imminent rise in UK borrowing costs knocked real estate stocks and retailers off their feet. The FTSE 100 closed at 6,596 points, do...
DATE: Jun 22, 2007
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index reversed a two-day losing streak and ended higher, boosted by resource shares and a rise in BCE after rival Telus said it is in talks to buy it.The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 117.57 p...
DATE: Jun 22, 2007
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