NEW YORK (AP) - The stock market's third quarter began on a positive note yesterday after some reassuring data on manufacturing and the housing market.
The gains were tempered, though, ahead of today's June jobs report.
"That's going to be the big on...
July 1
Bermuda Aquarium Museum & Zoo and the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute are hosting a visit from world-renowned BBC filmmaker Hugh Pearson. A lecture and showing of his film 'The Great Tide' at 6.30 p.m. A look at the winter sardine ru...
One of the leaders of the 1959 Theatre Boycott believes Premier Ewart Brown was right to break the Constitution by bringing Guantánamo Bay detainees to the Island without permission from the UK.
Clifford Maxwell yesterday said Bermuda needs to challe...
DATE: Jul 01, 2009 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index capped off a sharp quarterly gain with a lower close yesterday as weighty financial shares tumbled on concerns about the prospects for a global economic recovery.
The TSX index's financial group, which a...
Seventy-seven percent of voters are opposed to Independence according to a recent survey released yesterday.
And 33 percent of Bermudians say the economy is good or excellent.
Conducted by Profiles of Bermuda, the poll canvassed 401 registered voters...
NEW YORK (AP) - Investors are seeing a jump in oil as reason to snap up stocks in the final days of the second quarter.
Energy, industrial and materials stocks pulled the market higher in light trading yesterday as investors looked to put money into ...
A lack of judgment
June 15, 2009
Dear Sir,
Please allow me the opportunity of critically commenting on the Premier's decision to allow Uighur detainees from Guantánamo Bay into Bermuda. The internationalist in me wants to applaud this decision as a m...
TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index ended higher yesterday as a rise in oil prices fuelled energy shares while banks rallied as investors spruced up their portfolios ahead of the end of the quarter.
Canadian banks were among the key driver...
Seventy-seven percent of voters are opposed to Independence according to a recent survey released today.
The figures are a climb on those in the lead-in to the 2007 General Election, when two-thirds of voters, or 64 percent, were against Bermuda brea...
Subsidise visitors
June 4, 2009
Dear Sir,
There is much chatter about the decision on whether gambling should be allowed on docked cruise ships after hours. Most of this chatter revolves around gambling being a cure-all to our tourism problems.
It is...
