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Different Approach

Friday, 24 February 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

The local councils’ election has started to dominate the news and the printed media. ...

Momentum And value investing

Friday, 24 February 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

If you are investing in the quoted shares of our three main banks (HSBC, Bank of Valletta and Lombard), you have to be a momentum investor....

A Relieving prayer

Thursday, 23 February 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

In his third book entitled Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Saint John Damascene says: “Prayer is the raising of one’s mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God”. ...

At Your service, sir?!

Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

The Nationalist Party slogan is Biex Int Tghix Ahjar. A rough translation would be ‘For a better life’....

PN Leakages

Tuesday, 21 February 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 22 years ago Malta Independent

Attempts to minimise the devastating impact of the leaked internal PN report on their electoral defeat during the European Parliament elections have been unsuccessful....

Sharing The drugs debate

Monday, 20 February 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

The drugs debate has always been controversial, at times outright acrimonious. ...

The Right to not vote

Monday, 20 February 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

It seems nothing short of extraordinary that in this country, we have the right to not vote, but not the right to not let the political parties know about it!...

The Social-dumping directive

Sunday, 19 February 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

After two years of debate in the European Parliament, the Services Directive finally came to a successful first reading when it was adopted at last week’s Strasbourg session by 391 votes in favour and 213 against, with 34 abstentions....

‘Munich’ – Steven Spielberg’s Nightmare of moral equivalence

Sunday, 19 February 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Like many others in Malta, I couldn’t resist the strong temptation of going to see Munich, Steven Spielberg’s litigious movie that owes much of its publicity to the torrent of criticism it has received both in Jewish and ...

A Tale of two cities

Sunday, 19 February 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

No, I am not referring to the Charles Dickens classic. I am referring to what happened in Malta (Valletta, if you want the city) and New York where two pieces of market-moving financial news last weekend made it ...

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