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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange’s main index ended higher Friday as a bounce in the price of oil lifted heavyweight energy issues.The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 51.98 points, or 0.4 percent, at 12,979.26. The TSX finished two pe...
DATE: Jan 27, 2007
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Star mutual fund investor Peter Lynch used to say that companies “deworsified” when they acquired other companies that were a bad fit.
So it stands to reason that the opposite would be true: Badly fitting subsidiaries that get spun off should make go...
DATE: Jan 27, 2007
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This newspaper will not normally print anonymous letters, and I certainly wouldn’t, were such a letter to attack anyone other than me. But an anonymous reader this week raised an issue I would like to discuss, so I’ll make an exception.“The reason I’...
DATE: Jan 27, 2007
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Belco shares led the way on the Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange as they increased in value by $2.50 (11.1 percent) to finish at a new high of $25.00 after 2,150 shares were traded on Friday.
The only other price change on the Index was Bermuda...
DATE: Jan 27, 2007
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Shares valued at $388,348.50 were traded on the Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange pushing the Index 9.71 higher (0.20 percent) to reach 4,912.77 at the end of the day.Shares of HSBC Holdings and insurance company BF&M both improved by 50 cents. ...
DATE: Jan 26, 2007
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Former Deputy Premier Jerome Dill is to retire from private law practice after 21 years with Appleby Hunter Bailhache as he seeks to move into the world of business.
The partners of Appleby Group have announced Mr. Dill will be leaving as of March 31...
DATE: Jan 26, 2007
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WASHINGTON (AP) — After a five-year boom, the US housing market cooled considerably in 2006 with existing home sales falling by the largest amount in 17 years.While the worst may be over, the rebound could be slow in coming, analysts said, given a co...
DATE: Jan 26, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks suffered their biggest pullback in two months Thursday, with the Dow Jones industrials logging a triple-digit decline as a lacklustre home sales report and a disappointing bond auction halted the market’s two-day rally.The mark...
DATE: Jan 26, 2007
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Hedge funds do it. Hungarian homeowners do it. Even Japanese housewives do it. They all make the so-called carry trade one of the biggest in global finance. It involves borrowing low-yielding assets in one currency and investing the proceeds in highe...
DATE: Jan 26, 2007
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Shares valued at $388,348.50 were traded on the Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange pushing the Index 9.71 higher (0.20 percent) to reach 4,912.77 at the end of the day.
Shares of HSBC Holdings and insurance company BF&M both improved by 50 cents....
DATE: Jan 26, 2007
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