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On the final run-in to the election The Royal Gazette business team tested the temperature in the corporate world to find out how tomorrow's vote was being sized up.
What was gathered amongst the gossip snippets ranged from an election prediction to ...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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A new GP3 has been driving up and down the roads in the run-up to the election — but this one isn't a plush, dark blue Government car.
Kim Swan, of the United Bermuda Party, has taken to the streets on a single-seater rental bike adorned with a homem...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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An update on Bermuda's progress in the arena of satellite slots and regulation at least had some of the hallmarks of a US Space Shuttle launch.
First the press conference was on, then it was off, then it was on.
Twenty-four hours after cancelling, At...
DATE: Dec 14, 2007
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Forging closer understanding and partnership with International Business, while at the same time improving the ability of young Bermudians to secure careers within the Island's leading economic sector is a major plank of the United Bermuda Party's ap...
DATE: Dec 14, 2007
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The value of XL Capital's investment in Security Capital Assurance has dropped by $500 million in the past three months. Now XL has been warned not to get involved in the deepening crisis for its spin-off SCA as shares of both companies fell on the N...
DATE: Dec 14, 2007
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IPC Holdings Ltd. today announced it had agreed to buy fellow Bermuda-based insurance company Max Capital Group Ltd. in a stock-based deal worth about $912 million.
Owners of Max Capital common shares will get 0.6429 IPC shares for each of their shar...
DATE: Dec 14, 2007
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A man who heads a US investment company that is reaping success in emerging markets and natural resources has put his focus on Bermuda.
And from his own acute observations of what brings results to places as far-flung as Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai a...
DATE: Dec 13, 2007
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A Bermuda insurance company is thought to be in discussions geared at making an imminent bid for Lloyd's of London-listed insurer Kiln.
With the Island's insurance and reinsurance companies awash with money after two extremely quiet years, in terms o...
DATE: Dec 12, 2007
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Some time this morning an urgent telephone call will be made from Bermuda to order a fresh cement supply ship delivery for the new year.
Ten days away from a potentially devastating shut down of the Island's only bulk cement supply plant, a stop-gap ...
DATE: Dec 11, 2007
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Many in the financial sector in the Middle East and Europe are now better clued up on the benefits of doing offshore business in Bermuda - including the important plus the Island has in that there is no requirement for 'local auditor' sign-offs.
That...
DATE: Dec 10, 2007
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