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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...
DATE: Dec 18, 2010
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Personal Finance
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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...
DATE: Dec 18, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Personal Finance
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Butterfield Bank rose 12.5 percent (15 cents) to $1.35 on The Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
The bank traded 750 shares during the day.
Meanwhile Bermuda Commercial Bank Ltd. also climbed one percent (10 cents) to $9.85, with 1,862,820...
DATE: Dec 18, 2010
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Bermuda Stock Exchange
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Bermudian technology company QuoVadis has built a multi-million dollar new data centre in central Hamilton.
SecureCentre City, as the company has named the facility, is designed to cater to exempt companies' needs for hosting, private cloud and disas...
DATE: Dec 17, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Technology
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Bermuda-based re/insurer Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd yesterday has more than doubled its estimated losses from September’s earthquake in New Zealand.
Based on new information Aspen said yesterday that the earthquake, which caused widespread damage o...
DATE: Dec 17, 2010
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CATEGORY:
International Business
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Bermuda’s first commercially available electric car hit the streets yesterday when it was officially unveiled by Premier Paula Cox.
The Island E-Car, which will be sold by entrepreneurs Dennis Lister, Lloyd Telford and David Greene, has been designed...
DATE: Dec 17, 2010
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Other
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Ironshore Specialty Casualty, a unit of Bermuda-based Ironshore Inc, has boosted capacity for its public entity product and will increase available limits from $10 million to $25 million.
The capacity may be deployed on a retained limit, excess or re...
DATE: Dec 17, 2010
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CATEGORY:
International Business
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The Senate passed measures to give the Bermuda Monetary Authority more oversight of fund administration companies.
The amendments to the Investment Fund Act were passed without any objection from the Opposition yesterday.
Junior Finance Minister Davi...
DATE: Dec 16, 2010
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CATEGORY:
International Business
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XL Group plc has hired Fielding (Fid) Norton III from Bermuda-based rival Ironshore to enhance the firm's enterprise risk management.
Mr Norton, who was chief risk officer at Ironshore from the company's inception in 2007, will be XL's deputy chief e...
DATE: Dec 16, 2010
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CATEGORY:
International Business
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The first medical spa of its kind has been launched in Bermuda offering everything from nips and tucks to beauty treatments.
Aura Medical Spa and Rejuvenation Centre, which is run by plastic and reconstructive surgeon Christopher Johnson, has opened ...
DATE: Dec 16, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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