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Bermuda IT services company Independent Consulting Solutions will host a joint “CIO Roundtable” event with Microsoft tomorrow morning to launch the new Microsoft Lync software.
The event, which includes a networking breakfast followed by presentation...
DATE: Dec 13, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Technology
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Fitch Ratings has affirmed the core entities of the Bermuda-based Hiscox Group’s insurer financial strength (IFS) ratings at A, with a stable outlook.
Fitch said the affirmation reflects Hiscox’s “strong financial profile, underpinned by a stable lev...
DATE: Dec 13, 2010
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CATEGORY:
International Business
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bailed-out insurer American International Group Inc took another step in its restructuring last week, but it is only noticeable to those looking closely: it put the company’s logo back on employee identification cards.
After its ...
DATE: Dec 13, 2010
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CATEGORY:
International Business
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Four local companies saw their share prices rise on the Bermuda Stock Exchange last week, while one fell.
But Butterfield Bank’s heavy weighting meant its four percent fall was sufficient to drag down The Royal Gazette / BSX Index 13.98 points, or 1....
DATE: Dec 13, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Bermuda Stock Exchange
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Fitch Ratings has affirmed the A- insurer financial strength (IFS) rating of Montpelier Reinsurance Ltd., the principal (re)insurance operating subsidiary of Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd, and has revised the rating outlook to positive from stable.
The...
DATE: Dec 13, 2010
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CATEGORY:
International Business
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Financial literacy has become a huge catchphrase the one idea upon which consumer advocates and bankers, borrowers and lenders, even Republicans and Democrats all agree.
Everyone supports the notion that we need more financial ...
DATE: Dec 11, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Other
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WASHINGTON When Yahoo put out its top 10 searches in the financial category for 2010, there was no surprise to find, among the leaders, unemployment, foreclosures and the Dow Jones flash crash, the term coined for when the Dow dropped more than 600 p...
DATE: Dec 11, 2010
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Other
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - US stocks rose yesterday, with the S&P 500 at its highest level since the week Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, and breaching technical levels that suggest the year-end rally will persist.
Indexes closed near session highs with...
DATE: Dec 11, 2010
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Other
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto’s main stock index closed higher yesterday after upbeat economic data at home and abroad boosted confidence and pushed up heavily weighted financial and resource stocks.
The index’s financial sector finished the day up 0.9...
DATE: Dec 11, 2010
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Other
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The share price of broker and investment firm LOM (Holdings) Ltd rose 3.2 percent yesterday.
The company was the only issuer to change value on The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) Index, which climbed 0.56 points, or 0.05 percent, to clo...
DATE: Dec 11, 2010
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CATEGORY:
Bermuda Stock Exchange
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