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WASHINGTON When Yahoo put out its top 10 searches in the financial category for 2010, there was no surprise to find, among the leaders, unemployment, foreclosures and the Dow Jones flash crash, the term coined for when the Dow dropped more than 600 p...
DATE: Dec 11, 2010
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - US stocks rose yesterday, with the S&P 500 at its highest level since the week Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, and breaching technical levels that suggest the year-end rally will persist.
Indexes closed near session highs with...
DATE: Dec 11, 2010
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto’s main stock index closed higher yesterday after upbeat economic data at home and abroad boosted confidence and pushed up heavily weighted financial and resource stocks.
The index’s financial sector finished the day up 0.9...
DATE: Dec 11, 2010
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People wanting to become shareholders in fund administrators must give prior notice to Bermuda Monetary Authority under legislation approved in the House of Assembly.
Premier and Finance Minister Paula Cox said the Authority would have the power to r...
DATE: Dec 11, 2010
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LONDON (Reuters) British luxury fashion group Mulberry said it was breaking through as an international brand and full-year profit would beat forecasts amid soaring sales of its trademark leather handbags.
Chief executive Godfrey Davis told Reuters t...
DATE: Dec 10, 2010
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The Bermuda Foundation For Insurance Studies (BFIS) managed to provide more scholarships this year, despite seeing its finances come under pressure because of persistent low interest rates.
The organisation, which offers financial help for the furth...
DATE: Dec 10, 2010
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LONDON (Reuters) British house prices posted their first annual decline in a year in the three months to November, a survey showedyesterday, a further sign the housing market is cooling after a rebound earlier this year.
Mortgage lender Halifax said ...
DATE: Dec 10, 2010
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TOKYO (AP) Japan’s economy grew more in the third quarter than initially thought thanks to higher spending by companies, the government said yesterday.
Real gross domestic product a measure of the value of all goods and services produced expanded at ...
DATE: Dec 10, 2010
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Butterfield Bank shares tumbled four percent yesterday and dragged the local stock market lower. The Royal Gazette/ Bermuda Stock Exchange Index slipped 23.92 points, or 2.1 percent, to close on 1,123.34 yesterday.
Butterfield fell five cents to $1.2...
DATE: Dec 10, 2010
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PARMA, Italy, Dec 9 (Reuters) - An Italian court sentenced the founder of Parmalat SpA to 18 years in prison yesterday for his role in the Italian dairy company’s 2003 collapse, Europe’s biggest corporate bankruptcy at the time.
Parmalat buckled in D...
DATE: Dec 10, 2010
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