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CHICAGO (Bloomberg) — Shares of Bermuda company Nabors Industries Ltd., the world’s largest onshore oil and natural-gas driller, had the largest gain in almost four months on speculation the company may be a buyout target, energy analyst Dan Pickerin...
DATE: Feb 05, 2007
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he global economy is chugging along nicely, helped, in no small measure, by a significant decline in oil prices since it peaked in August. This has helped to reduce expectations of higher inflation and the perceived need for central-bank tightening. ...
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) — If the multi-year metals party is in jeopardy, you wouldn’t know it from the optimism of 6,000 explorers and miners gathered here to discuss prices and geology.The mood was decidedly upbeat at the annual Minera...
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Bermuda-based White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd. reported a net income of $673 million for 2006 ? more than double the 2005 figure.
Net income for the quarter was $299 million, compared to $33 million for the fourth quarter of 2005.
Those results r...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — The yen rebounded from a four-year low versus the dollar this week as European officials said Japan’s currency is undervalued.The currency had its first weekly gain versus the dollar in about a month as US Treasury Secretary He...
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Famous for his contraire approach to investments and looking in the opposite direction to ?the herd? for money-making investment opportunities, Swiss-born Dr. Marc Faber delivered his brand of wisdom to an audience of money managers during a stop-off...
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The global economy is chugging along nicely, helped, in no small measure, by a significant decline in oil prices since it peaked in August. This has helped to reduce expectations of higher inflation and the perceived need for central-bank tightening....
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THINGS come in threes: this article is the third in a trilogy inspired by TV. I’m going to start getting out more after this.It was a MasterCard commercial. The opening shot showed a supermarket checkout, with groceries rolling along the little plast...
DATE: Feb 03, 2007
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To judge by one early portent, a long, sluggish year may be in store for the US financial markets.That’s the signal sent by the behaviour of stock prices in January, which some investors watch as an indicator of how things are likely to go in the nex...
DATE: Feb 03, 2007
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HINGS come in threes: this article is the third in a trilogy inspired by TV. I'm going to start getting out more after this.
It was a MasterCard commercial. The opening shot showed a supermarket checkout, with groceries rolling along the little plast...
DATE: Feb 03, 2007
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