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Insurers will have to provide more financial information in their yearly reports under regulations approved by the House of Assembly yesterday.
Category 3B and E insurance companies are affected by the Insurance Accounts Amendment (Number 2) Regulati...
DATE: Dec 11, 2010
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International Business
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
People wanting to become shareholders in fund administrators must give prior notice to Bermuda Monetary Authority under legislation approved in the House of Assembly.
Premier and Finance Minister Paula Cox said the Authority would have the power to r...
DATE: Dec 11, 2010
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AUTHOR:
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LONDON (Reuters) British luxury fashion group Mulberry said it was breaking through as an international brand and full-year profit would beat forecasts amid soaring sales of its trademark leather handbags.
Chief executive Godfrey Davis told Reuters t...
DATE: Dec 10, 2010
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The Bermuda Foundation For Insurance Studies (BFIS) managed to provide more scholarships this year, despite seeing its finances come under pressure because of persistent low interest rates.
The organisation, which offers financial help for the furth...
DATE: Dec 10, 2010
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LONDON (Reuters) British house prices posted their first annual decline in a year in the three months to November, a survey showedyesterday, a further sign the housing market is cooling after a rebound earlier this year.
Mortgage lender Halifax said ...
DATE: Dec 10, 2010
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TOKYO (AP) Japan’s economy grew more in the third quarter than initially thought thanks to higher spending by companies, the government said yesterday.
Real gross domestic product a measure of the value of all goods and services produced expanded at ...
DATE: Dec 10, 2010
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Butterfield Bank shares tumbled four percent yesterday and dragged the local stock market lower. The Royal Gazette/ Bermuda Stock Exchange Index slipped 23.92 points, or 2.1 percent, to close on 1,123.34 yesterday.
Butterfield fell five cents to $1.2...
DATE: Dec 10, 2010
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PARMA, Italy, Dec 9 (Reuters) - An Italian court sentenced the founder of Parmalat SpA to 18 years in prison yesterday for his role in the Italian dairy company’s 2003 collapse, Europe’s biggest corporate bankruptcy at the time.
Parmalat buckled in D...
DATE: Dec 10, 2010
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TORONTO (Reuters) The Canadian residential housing sector is landing safely after a wild ride over the past three years, Toronto-Dominion Bank said in a report yesterday.
Looking ahead, the economics unit of Canada’s No. 2 bank said it expects improv...
DATE: Dec 10, 2010
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The threat to the security of employees from the rising tide of violent crime in Bermuda has become an increasing concern for international companies, a reinsurance boss said yesterday.
Michael Price, chief executive officer of Platinum Underwriters,...
DATE: Dec 10, 2010
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