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(Bloomberg) — The erosion of the nation’s housing market extended into the fourth quarter, posing a risk that the weakness will permeate the rest of the US economy, a pair of reports this week may show.Purchases of previously owned homes dropped 0.5 ...
DATE: Nov 27, 2006
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NEW YORK (Reuters) — A federal judge has dismissed an attempt by investors in a hedge fund company to block a $263 million payment to a unit of bankrupt Refco Inc. that they said was in fact their money.In a decision filed on Wednesday with the US ba...
DATE: Nov 27, 2006
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NEW YORK (AP) — Financial markets are puzzled about whether the housing sector has bottomed out or not. Executives leading the nation’s homebuilders certainly aren’t making that assessment any easier.Those CEOs are publicly saying more doom-and-gloom...
DATE: Nov 25, 2006
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NEW YORK (Reuters) — US stocks dropped yesterday in light, choppy trading as a steep fall in the dollar renewed inflation worries in a short session after the Thanksgiving holiday, but the losses were partly offset by mining shares, which rose after ...
DATE: Nov 25, 2006
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NEW YORK (AP) — As the holiday shopping season begins, many consumers need to figure out how to avoid taking on too much debt.A bit of planning will go a long way toward keeping costs in check.
Big bucks are involved. Spending for Christmas, Hanukkah...
DATE: Nov 25, 2006
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He is poised as if in flight, the musculature aesthetically and fully exposed and straining, arms thrust forward, one leg mid-stride, the other flung far higher as if in a final kick to the finish of a long run. But this is not a photo finish of a fa...
DATE: Nov 25, 2006
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A couple of warnings this week about what might seem like entirely sensible activities that could, in fact, lead to sudden and severe loss of capital. One affects travellers to the US, the other anyone with a UK bank account.
Do you own a laptop, and...
DATE: Nov 25, 2006
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the Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index gained for the second day in a row as Butterfield Bank and Bermuda Aviation Services rose in thin trading.
The Index closed up 44.53 points to 4,831.70 as just 667 shares worth 22,625.50 changed hands.
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DATE: Nov 25, 2006
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couple of warnings this week about what might seem like entirely sensible activities that could, in fact, lead to sudden and severe loss of capital. One affects travellers to the US, the other anyone with a UK bank account.
Do you own a laptop, and o...
DATE: Nov 25, 2006
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the Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index gained for the second day in a row as Butterfield Bank and Bermuda Aviation Services rose in thin trading.
The Index closed up 44.53 points to 4,831.70 as just 667 shares worth 22,625.50 changed hands.
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DATE: Nov 25, 2006
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