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HEDGE funds are being blamed for just about every ill of the financial markets in 2007.Aggressive, unregulated and secretive, these powerful investment pools employ any strategy they wish to try to make money for high-net-worth individuals unafraid o...
DATE: Mar 31, 2007
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SOME time ago, I wrote of the “Nigerian scam”, an unending series of e-mail attempts to extract people’s personal details so that their assets could be stolen. Just this week, a superb example of the genre surfaced, albeit having nothing to do with N...
DATE: Mar 31, 2007
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange’s main index ended lower as energy and financial issues dropped, due partly to quarter-end profit-taking.The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 92.52 points, or 0.7 percent, at 13,165.50. The benchmark ...
DATE: Mar 31, 2007
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A small rise in the value of Bermuda Aviation Services shares was responsible for a 0.46 (0.01 percent) point rise in the Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange, which ended at 5,074.31.
The BAS shares improved by five cents (0.8 percent) to $6.30 af...
DATE: Mar 31, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Consumer spending in the US increased more than forecast in February, reflecting higher gasoline prices that left Americans with less cash for other goods. A measure of inflation accelerated.The 0.6 percent gain in spending fol...
DATE: Mar 31, 2007
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SMALL-capitalisation stocks are at it again. As the first quarter of 2007 comes to a close, they are doing the same thing they have done every year since the end of the 1990s. They are outperforming big stocks in the US market.Through the middle of t...
DATE: Mar 31, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks ended higher in volatile trading yesterday as investors weighed fears about mounting tension in Iran against a report that indicated better-than-expected US economic growth.The major indexes bounced around, and spent most of th...
DATE: Mar 30, 2007
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ORLANDO, Florida (AP) — Try shopping for a “Watchman” on Sony’s web-site, and all you’ll find is music. Though the company kept making the handheld TV for two decades, it never caught on like the Walkman, or, more recently, the iPod.Yet it was earlie...
DATE: Mar 30, 2007
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The Royal Gazette Bermuda Stock Exchange fell 23 points yesterday on a day of light trading which saw two issues decline and none advance.
Bermuda Commercial Bank Ltd. fell 75 cents (7.9 percent) to close at $8.75 as 100 shares sold.
Argus Group Hold...
DATE: Mar 30, 2007
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THIS year’s Cricket World Cup, overshadowed by the still-unsolved murder of Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer in his Jamaican hotel room, has brought the 400-year-old game into disrepute.The police are investigating the possibility, among others, that Woolm...
DATE: Mar 30, 2007
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