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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - US stocks rallied, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to the biggest advance in three months, amid improving global economic data and on investor speculation of a larger European financial rescue.
Schlumberger Ltd. and Dow...
DATE: Dec 02, 2010
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LONDON (Reuters) - British manufacturing activity accelerated unexpectedly to a 16-year high in November and employment climbed at a record pace, according to a survey yesterday that pointed to a surprisingly robust recovery in the industrial sector....
DATE: Dec 02, 2010
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Bermuda, via representation by the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA), has been appointed chairman of the International Association of Insurance Supervisor’s (IAIS) Insurance Groups and Cross-sectoral Issues Subcommittee (IGSC).
The IGSC is the committ...
DATE: Dec 02, 2010
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Four top business leaders who helped to shape Bermuda have been inducted into the Bermuda Employers’ Council (BEC) new Bermuda Business Hall of Fame.
Sir Henry Tucker was selected from the 1960s, Sir David Gibbons from the 1970s, Sir John Swan from t...
DATE: Dec 02, 2010
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland will look at possibly selling its energy and gas assets and will force holders of subordinated bank debt to shoulder losses as part of its IMF/EU bailout, a memorandum of understanding showed yesterday.
Prime Minister Brian...
DATE: Dec 02, 2010
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Bermuda must accept that the world has changed as a result of the economic downturn and no one person is owed a living without putting in the work.
That is the view of Graham Redford, outgoing president of the Bermuda Employers’ Council (BEC), who wa...
DATE: Dec 02, 2010
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LONDON (Bloomberg) British Airways Plc’s OpenSkies luxury-travel unit may boost its four-plane fleet to 20 aircraft in coming years as business travel rebounds and it rents jets to VIP clients such as singer Beyonce and soccer club Real Madrid.
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DATE: Dec 02, 2010
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Bermuda-based insurers and reinsurers are struggling in an industry downturn, with deteriorating fundamentals and the trough of the cycle not yet reached, rating agency A.M. Best said in a new report.
The largest players in the market include ACE Ltd...
DATE: Dec 02, 2010
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BRUSSELS (AP) European officials searched urgently yesterday for ways to contain the region’s debt crisis, amid expectation that a rebound in government bond markets would prove only temporary.
The EU’s monetary affairs chief, Olli Rehn, lobbied for ...
DATE: Dec 02, 2010
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LONDON (AP) - Stocks and the euro rebounded strongly yesterday after a run of buoyant economic data from around the world and mounting expectations that the European Central Bank will be stepping up its government bond purchase programme in an attemp...
DATE: Dec 02, 2010
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