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"Get organised for the new year"

It is a new year, new beginning, new ideas, and time to clean up the old clutter, organise your finances, and plan again for success. The song Auld Lang Syne has been traditional for many, many years. The words (originally, a poem) signify the start...
Jan 08, 2011
Opinion Writer

"New decade shows signs of economic life"

As 2011 began, we moved into a new decade. No one needs to be reminded that the first ten years of the new millennia were turbulent and troublesome. This new decade is opening with a sense of optimism and signs of economic life. The equity markets ha...
Jan 08, 2011
Personal Finance

"Crowded grocery industry leaves Safeway little room for growth"

Question: I am concerned about my shares of Safeway Inc. and wonder how the company is going to hold up against all of its competition. L.D., via the Internet Amswer: While the logic behind investing in the stock of grocery chains has always been tha...
Dec 18, 2010
Personal Finance

"Living on financial fault lines"

Sometimes it helps to see the data that prove the uneven financial ground you're standing on is occupied by a lot of other people as well. So while the results of a study released this week by the Rockefeller Foundation aren't surprising, the conclus...
Dec 18, 2010
Opinion Writer

"How to manage through personal life cycles"

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. To get somewhere in life, we need to know which way we are heading and a roadmap of how to get there. For some reason, so many of us leave our most important decisions to chance. Or we caught-up in the details a...
Dec 18, 2010
Bermuda Stock Exchange

"BSX slips 1.24%"

Four local companies saw their share prices rise on the Bermuda Stock Exchange last week, while one fell. But Butterfield Bank’s heavy weighting meant its four percent fall was sufficient to drag down The Royal Gazette / BSX Index 13.98 points, or 1....
Dec 13, 2010
Bermuda Stock Exchange

"LOM climbs 3.2 percent"

The share price of broker and investment firm LOM (Holdings) Ltd rose 3.2 percent yesterday. The company was the only issuer to change value on The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) Index, which climbed 0.56 points, or 0.05 percent, to clo...
Dec 11, 2010
Opinion Writer

"Strange things going on in copper market"

Mysterious factors seem at play in the market for copper. Late last month it was revealed that one buyer was hoarding over half of the copper inventory at the London Metal Exchanges (LME). That could be up to 75 percent of the 355,750 metric tonnes i...
Dec 11, 2010
Opinion Writer

"Financial literacy shortfall is costing Bermudians dear"

Part 2 The Way We Were - The Tech Bubble Reached the Bursting Point Commentary on the last 12 Years of Individual (and Institutional) Investor Growth in Bermuda The financial investments suitcase salesmen strolled in and raced out, some never to be s...
Dec 11, 2010
Bermuda Stock Exchange

"Argus gains 1.7 percent"

Insurers Argus Group Holdings Ltd and BF&M Ltd moved in opposite directions in Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) trading yesterday. Argus climbed nine cents, or 1.7 percent, to close on $5.25 as 1,100 shares changed hands. BF&M’s stock price fell 40 cents...
Dec 08, 2010
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