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LONDON (Reuters) — Britain’s finance minister Gordon Brown will set out plans to improve relations between firms and tax authorities at a meeting with his global business advisors, including ex-US Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan.Firms have long ...
DATE: Nov 20, 2006
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NEW YORK (AP) — Before David Filkins retired from his job as a computer software engineer, he wanted to make sure that all the calculations he had done about financing his retirement years were on target.So he reran the numbers using Fidelity Investm...
DATE: Nov 18, 2006
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Housing construction in the United States plunged to the lowest level in more than six years in October as the once-booming housing market slowed further.The Commerce Department reported yesterday that construction of new single-fam...
DATE: Nov 18, 2006
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This is one in an occasional series on maths for consumers:
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Making Sense of Cents and Percent. Even though we hate to admit it, for most of us, including me, it has been a long time since we really thought about these pesky math concepts s...
DATE: Nov 18, 2006
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange ended the week flat yesterday as no shares changed price.
The Index held at 4,808.80 on moderate volume of 7,751 shares worth $141,430.50.
Butterfield Bank was unchanged at $55.50 as 2,251 shares traded while ...
DATE: Nov 18, 2006
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This is one in an occasional series on maths for consumers:Making Sense of Cents and Percent. Even though we hate to admit it, for most of us, including me, it has been a long time since we really thought about these pesky math concepts such as recip...
DATE: Nov 18, 2006
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he quiz in this space a couple of weeks ago brought two responses, which may have had something to do with it being nonsense. Although ? Martha Myron, our resident actual genius, only received one more entry for her real quiz.
By an odd coincidence, ...
DATE: Nov 18, 2006
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NEW YORK (Dow Jones/AP) ? Prosecutors said yesterday that they may add additional defendants to the fraud case against Phillip R. Bennett, Refco Inc.?s former chief executive, and Robert C. Trosten, the commodities broker?s ex-chief financial officer...
DATE: Nov 17, 2006
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The Bermuda market will be ?horrified? by the new capital model to be introduced early next year by rating agency Standard & Poor?s (S&P).
The comment was made by Caroline Foulger, an insurance partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, on Wednesday, the ope...
DATE: Nov 17, 2006
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NEW YORK (Reuters) — Billionaire turnaround specialist Wilbur Ross said on Wednesday he is about to make a $100 million investment in the reinsurance industry, his latest vote of confidence in the sector. Ross has already put more than $125 million i...
DATE: Nov 17, 2006
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