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Bermuda continues to have a bright future as a global insurance centre, despite political threats from the US and elsewhere, according to Flagstone Re co-founder Mark Byrne.
What matters to the Island is not whether insurers domicile their holding co...
DATE: Jun 01, 2010
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Seadrill Ltd. raised its stake in Scorpion Offshore Ltd. to 50.11 percent and made a mandatory offer for the remaining shares at 40.50 kroner apiece, valuing the company at 3.6 billion kroner ($558 million).
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DATE: Jun 01, 2010
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LONDON - UK markets were closed for the Spring bank holiday. They will reopen today. On Friday, the FTSE 100 ended 6.74 points or 0.1 percent lower at 5,188.43.
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EUROPE - European equities closed higher, led by shares of Germ...
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Role: Document workflow specialist (insurance/reinsurance, print, accounting and utilities), AF Smith
What is your job? I aid companies with document, scanning and software solutions to enable them to have higher productivity, lower costs and...
DATE: Jun 01, 2010
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index closed higher yesterday as firm commodity prices and robust economic growth data helped lift the index's resource and banking shares.
Canada's economy expanded at the fastest clip in more than a decade i...
DATE: Jun 01, 2010
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Legendary investor Warren Buffett appears this week before a commission searching for the causes of the 2008 financial crisis, to provide his assessment on the role a much-maligned credit rating industry played. Buffett, who runs...
DATE: May 31, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) — Europe has spooked stock investors. Will it spook shoppers, too?
Lately Americans have started spending a bit more, giving a lift to the economy and confounding doomsayers and even logic. After all, unemployment is still near double d...
DATE: May 31, 2010
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XL Capital boss Mike McGavick urged US lawmakers to remember what the Bermuda insurance market has done to support the US economy before considering law changes that could harm the Island.
Mr. McGavick made his comments to an audience dominated by in...
DATE: May 31, 2010
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NEW YORK, May 30 (Reuters) - In a bid to reduce outsourcing of US jobs, a Democratic senator said yesterday he will push legislation to make companies inform customers when their calls were being transferred outside the United States and charge compa...
DATE: May 31, 2010
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — American International Group Inc., the bailed-out insurer, remains in negotiations to salvage the sale of its main Asia unit after Prudential Plc requested a lower price to win shareholders' approval.
Prudential asked that the ...
DATE: May 31, 2010
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