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The Dow industrial index has hit new highs and other stock-market indices, in the United States and elsewhere, are also doing well as investors price in a soft landing for the US economy. Volatility indicators show few signs of rising from their low ...
DATE: Oct 23, 2006
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) ? Rarely has a Nobel Peace Prize been more deserved than in the case of Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh. The founder of Grameen Bank beat out Irish rock star Bono and a bevy of others for the honour, and rightfully so.
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DATE: Oct 21, 2006
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Bermudians tend to fixate to the point of obsession about owning property. Given the historic rate off appreciation and the fact that for many years onshore capital market investments (in hard currencies) were limited or just not available, it is no ...
DATE: Oct 21, 2006
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Skim the most recent round of inflation reports, and you?ll get a real ?don?t worry, be happy? sense of the world.
Both producer and consumer prices fell in September, and gas prices declined 22 percent, according to government...
DATE: Oct 21, 2006
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Twenty years ago yesterday, I had my last alcoholic drink, if you don?t count a couple of beers 11 years ago that I consumed on a test basis, and which made me seriously unwell. Abandoning the booze is one of the things I got right in my life. This s...
DATE: Oct 21, 2006
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Since the US Mint began issuing unique quarters for each of the 50 states a few years ago, coin dealers say there has been a surge of interest and hype surrounding numismatics, the fancy term for collecting and studying coins and paper money.
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DATE: Oct 21, 2006
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Confirmation that Bermuda Commercial Bank is up for sale and Butterfield Bank is looking at buying it sent the stock price of the Island's third bank's shares soaring more than 30 percent yesterday.
BCB, which had seen its chairman John Deuss resign ...
DATE: Oct 21, 2006
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) ? The Starr Foundation, led by Maurice Greenberg, former chief executive officer of insurer American International Group Inc., gave $25 million to Harlem Children?s Zone to help expand its programme in upper Manhattan.
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DATE: Oct 20, 2006
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The Association of Bermuda International Companies (ABIC) has teamed up with Georgia State University to offer ABIC?s first ever $50,000 pos-graduate scholarship.
With the university?s Department of Risk Management and Insurance, the scholarship will...
DATE: Oct 20, 2006
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Digicel's newly appointed general manager has led companies to success on the African continent and now he is vowing to repeat that success in Bermuda.
David Hunter said he plans to make the company the leading provider of mobile telephony services w...
DATE: Oct 20, 2006
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