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The Royal Gazette Bermuda Stock Exchange Index soared one percent yesterday to close the week just 15 points short of an all-time high.
Butterfield Bank was the driving force behind yesterday's advance, as its shares surged $1 (1.7 percent) on the sa...
DATE: Apr 21, 2007
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THE picture is just terrible: two small girls sitting together, survivors, traumatised, screaming and covered in blood. What were they doing? They were walking home from school when a bomb went off in Baghad on April 2, 2007. The simple peaceful act ...
DATE: Apr 21, 2007
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks rose, notching a third-straight weekly gain, on the prospect of more takeovers, after Sherritt International Corp. said it will buy rival miner Dynatec Corp. to take advantage of record nickel prices.BCE Inc., Ca...
DATE: Apr 21, 2007
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By the time you read this, I ought to be in Reno, Nevada for some R&R, prior to heading down to New Orleans for the festival of insurance that is RIMS.Being in the US has prompted me to think about the frequent reports one reads about how ill-prepar...
DATE: Apr 21, 2007
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THE next time somebody asks you what’s hot in the stock market, whisper “Old Europe”.That will give your interrogator something different to think about. And it will pack the added punch of being true.
The pound breaks $2! The euro trades near record...
DATE: Apr 21, 2007
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Dozens of new shareholder-owned insurance companies set up shop in the British Virgin Islands last year, joining a growing list of US insurers seeking to avoid taxes and regulation in their homeland, officials said yester...
DATE: Apr 20, 2007
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The Royal Gazette Bermuda Stock Exchange Index soared one percent yesterday to close the week just 15 points short of an all-time high.
Butterfield Bank was the driving force behind yesterday’s advance, as its shares surged $1 (1.7 percent) on the sa...
DATE: Apr 20, 2007
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SHANGHAI, China (AP) — Physicist Shi Zhengrong spent the 1990s in an Australian lab studying solar power, a field he picked by chance. He expected to devote his life to science.Still, Shi saw signs of a blossoming industry as Germany, Japan and other...
DATE: Apr 20, 2007
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BEIJING (Reuters) — China’s economy grew at a blistering 11.1 percent annual pace in the first quarter on the back of booming investment and exports, fuelling speculation that interest rates would need to rise again soon.The growth rate announced yes...
DATE: Apr 20, 2007
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) — China’s yuan hit a post-revaluation high, bond yields jumped and stocks tumbled yesterday as markets reacted to the prospect that rising inflation could prompt interest rates to climb faster.A jump in March consumer price inflati...
DATE: Apr 20, 2007
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