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Credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has raised its outlook on Bermuda’s creditworthiness to stable from negative.
The action lifts the immediate threat of a credit downgrade, which would have resulted in Government having to pay h...
DATE: Sep 07, 2010
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MILWAUKEE (AP) - A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs programme yesterday that will exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Am...
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Insurance industry leader and stalwart Bob Clements died of esophageal cancer at on Saturday at his home in Stamford, Connecticut, aged 77.
Mr. Clements, who founded and led a number of global insurers such as Arch Capital Group, Ace, XL and Mid-Ocea...
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Bermuda-based fund administrator Prime Management Ltd. has again scored highly in the annual Global Custodian Hedge Fund Administration Survey, achieving "Top Rated" status, and an overall score of 6.29 out of 7.
This is the second consecutive year t...
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Prices are firmer in the residential property market this year than they have been in the falling market of the past two years, according to the latest Government figures.
But buying and selling activity has fallen significantly, as prospective buyer...
DATE: Sep 07, 2010
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A sense of optimism has pervaded among traders in Dockyard this season. The completion of the new cruise ship terminal last year and the doubling of ship numbers to two per week have given retailers hope that 2010 would be the year to bounce back fro...
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BUCHAREST (Bloomberg) - European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council member Ewald Nowotny said policy makers will wait until December before discussing how to withdraw emergency measures to give the economy time to gather strength.
"We certainly won...
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LONDON (AP) - British Airways plc. (BA) chief executive Willie Walsh has drawn up a list of 12 airlines as potential acquisition targets once BA's merger with Spain's Iberia is complete.
Mr. Walsh said at the launch of a code-sharing agreement with I...
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Bermuda Press (Holdings) Ltd. was the biggest mover on The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) last week, dropping 14 percent ($1.40).
The media company closed at $8.60, with 400 shares traded.
The only other traders were Butterfield Bank (80,537 shares), D...
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In an interview at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital (KEMH), local medical student Neil Cattell, a member of the executive board of the Bermuda Medical Students Society (BMSS), speculated on the long-term importance of experiencing work at Bermuda's ...
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