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Bermuda's up-and-coming entrepreneurs and small businesses were on show at the initial opening of Gallery 135 on Saturday.
The new retail centre, which is based at 135 Front Street, attracted more than 250 viewers, who came to check out some of the I...
DATE: Nov 03, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) — Here's something that might provide a bit of solace amid the plunging values in your retirement accounts: Warren Buffett is losing lots of money, too. So are Kirk Kerkorian, Carl Icahn and Sumner Redstone.
They are still plenty rich, ...
DATE: Nov 03, 2008
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The news flow in America, Europe and Japan is dominated by talk about recession and government action to counter its severity. All indications are that the downturn will be sharp, particularly in those countries such as the US and Britain that had th...
DATE: Nov 03, 2008
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The one thing that stands out clearly from the 'new new experience' in this our latest volatile market cycle is, that during market ascendance, it appears to be so easy to make money. It is so easy to be right. It is so easy that everyone thinks that...
DATE: Nov 01, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Investors speculating on a rebound in US stocks may have a better chance in the first year of a Barack Obama presidency than a John McCain administration, if election history is any guide.
Since 1900, the Dow Jones Industrial A...
DATE: Oct 31, 2008
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A large number of Bermuda insurance and reinsurance executives are this week attending two key industry gatherings that are a world apart.
In Germany at the Black Forest spa town of Baden Baden, and in Scottsdale, Arizona in the US, reinsurers and in...
DATE: Oct 30, 2008
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Oops! Here is a sad story of how not to use an Excel spreadsheet when doing complicated financial computations.
It seems that a lawyer in the deal between Barclays Capital and the bankrupt Lehman Brothers did not spot an error when converting an Exce...
DATE: Oct 29, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) - Plastic used to be the sexy material of the future. Now, it's the cheap, ugly material of the past.
Just look at the effort Apple Inc. put into getting rid of plastic when designing its new $1,300 MacBook laptops, which went on sale l...
DATE: Oct 29, 2008
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The process of deleveraging is causing many casualties among individuals, corporations and countries everywhere. Despite massive government intervention across the world, there will be many more victims before some measure of stability returns. Needl...
DATE: Oct 27, 2008
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Arch Capital Group suffered after-tax net losses of $133 million relating to hurricanes Gustav and Ike in the third quarter of 2008 — but the Bermuda insurer and reinsurer still managed to record a profit of $26.4 million.
The storm losses — equivale...
DATE: Oct 24, 2008
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