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In the investment markets, these are neither the best of times nor the worst of times. They are the age of low volatility.Only twice in the last three years has the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index gained or lost as much as 2 percent in a single day. That...
DATE: Jan 13, 2007
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TORONTO (Reuters) — The Toronto Stock Exchange’s main index ended sharply higher yesterday on a rebound in oil prices and firmer resource issues.The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 158.91 points, or 1.3 percent, at 12,678.81. The TSX gained 1.6 per...
DATE: Jan 13, 2007
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INCE watching TV helped produce a column last week, I thought I might try it again. The programme this time was called "1 vs. 100". It's a quiz show in which a contestant has to outsmart a panel of 100 people by answering a series of questions. It's ...
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SINCE watching TV helped produce a column last week, I thought I might try it again. The programme this time was called "1 vs. 100". It's a quiz show in which a contestant has to outsmart a panel of 100 people by answering a series of questions. It's...
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When I was in college, the campus Marxist shared a workspace — and community refrigerator — with several of his more free-market-minded colleagues. On opening the fridge for his half-and-half one morning, a professor of logic chuckled to see a note a...
DATE: Jan 13, 2007
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WHAT is it about the relationship around money? Is it control? Is it different temperaments? Is it for shoring up a fragile ego? Or is it complete indifference to what money can do for you? Ever watch a couple shopping? The body language is fascinati...
DATE: Jan 13, 2007
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index closed unchanged following light trading yesterday.
The only issue to see activity was Argus Group Holdings Ltd, which remained unchanged on $14 after 500 shares were traded.
Over the week, the Index saw...
DATE: Jan 12, 2007
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GULFPORT, Mississippi (AP) — A jury awarded $2.5 million in punitive damages against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. for a Mississippi couple for denying their Hurricane Katrina claim. The decision could benefit hundreds of other homeowners challeng...
DATE: Jan 12, 2007
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LONDON (Reuters) — British interest rates hit their highest level in nearly six years yesterday after the Bank of England stunned markets by raising interest rates to 5.25 percent, the third quarter-point hike since August.Wrong-footed analysts immed...
DATE: Jan 12, 2007
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Marsh & McLennan Cos., the world’s largest insurance broker, has formed a Bermuda-based venture with investors to bring as much as $1 billion in new insurance coverage to clients in disaster-prone areas in the next year.
MaRI Ltd., created with inves...
DATE: Jan 12, 2007
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