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TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian stock trading volumes look set to rise in the coming months as the country's main stock exchange and its domestic and foreign competitors push to roll out new dealing platforms and fresh ways to route orders.
The changes,...
DATE: Oct 25, 2010
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Correlations
Forward Return
One-year Three-year Five-year
1900-1946 -0.09 0.01 -0.10
(annual data only)
1946-present -0.18 -0.09 -0.09
(quarterly data)
Source: Global Financial Data, Goetzmann, Ibbotson, O'Shaughnessy Asset Management
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DATE: Oct 25, 2010
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Auto dealers are only selling half the number of vehicles they did three or four years ago and are bracing themselves for a tough year ahead.
That is according to Michael Butler, the newly-appointed chairman of the Bermuda Automotive Distributors' As...
DATE: Oct 25, 2010
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — The US has a "special responsibility" to support the dollar as a reserve currency, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said, reaffirming the country's foreign exchange policy stance.
"It is the policy of the United States to...
DATE: Oct 25, 2010
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GYEONGJU, Korea (Bloomberg) — Group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers vowed to avoid weakening currencies to lift exports, leaving leaders to flesh out new ways of prodding fellow member China to allow faster gains in the yuan.
Officials en...
DATE: Oct 25, 2010
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HONG KONG (Bloomberg) — American International Group Inc. raised a record HK$138.3 billion ($17.8 billion) in the Hong Kong initial public offering of its main Asian unit, putting the bailed-out insurer on course to repay its US assistance.
AIG sold ...
DATE: Oct 25, 2010
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A fall of more than five percent in the value of Butterfield Bank shares drove local stocks lower last week.
The bank fell eight cents, or 5.4 percent, to $1.41, as 17,930 shares changed hands.
The biggest faller of the week, however, was Stevedoring...
DATE: Oct 25, 2010
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Royal Bank of Canada, the country's biggest lender by assets, sold a US life insurance unit to Bermuda-based Athene Holding Ltd. for $628.1 million, taking a loss on a purchase it made a decade ago.
Royal Bank expects to complet...
DATE: Oct 25, 2010
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AS Cooper & Sons Ltd. has been bucking the trend of retailers during the recession with the expansion and opening of a new 7,000-square foot space at its Reid Street store.
The retailer will relocate its second floor 'studio' better ladieswear depart...
DATE: Oct 25, 2010
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Q. Is my Wal-Mart Stores Inc. stock going to revive? It frustrates me. — PW, via the Internet
A. The world's largest retailer fared well early in the recession as consumers became more budget-conscious.
However, nagging US unemployment and some uncha...
DATE: Oct 23, 2010
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