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NEW YORK (AP) - One way to describe NBC's online Olympics efforts is two steps forward, one step back - at least when it comes to live video.
Although NBC is showing more live events on the Internet than it had during any other Winter Games, the broa...
DATE: Feb 24, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) - The stock market pulled back yesterday after a surprising drop in consumer confidence reminded investors of the fragility of the economic recovery.
The Dow Jones industrials fell 100 points. Interest rates also fell as investors moved...
DATE: Feb 24, 2010
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Bermuda-based insurer XL Capital Ltd. said Seraina Maag will succeed Dennis Kane as chief executive officer of its North America property and casualty insurance business.
Ms Maag moved to the US from Switzerland in 2006 to work at Zurich Financial Se...
DATE: Feb 24, 2010
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — State tax revenue in the US fell for a record fifth straight quarter in the final three months of 2009, the Nelson Rockefeller Institute of Government said in a report yesterday.
States will probably face depressed revenue at l...
DATE: Feb 24, 2010
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — The UK Serious Fraud Office is investigating the collapse last year of Aero Inventory Plc, a supplier of parts to Qantas Airways Ltd. The SFO, which prosecutes white-collar crime, opened the investigation due to "information it r...
DATE: Feb 24, 2010
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based re/insurer Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. has been advised by its biggest shareholder to seek merger opportunities.
Perry Corp., the hedge-fund manager run by Richard Perry - who has a seat on the Endurance boa...
DATE: Feb 24, 2010
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The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) sunk lower - this time by 13.6 points (0.72 percent) to 1,881.34 yesterday.
The Index traded 75,508 shares worth BD$327,112.50 and 2,000 shares worth US$21,400.
Butterfield Bank also continued its slide, dropping 3.5 ...
DATE: Feb 24, 2010
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Mobile phone subscriptions will buck the economic crisis and top five billion this year, but the high speed Internet remains a "digital divide" between rich and developing countries, a United Nations (UN) agency said yesterday.
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DATE: Feb 24, 2010
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Bermuda-based insurer Lancashire Holdings Ltd. officially opened its swish new offices in the Power House this week.
With natural light pouring into every room, management is hoping the move along Par-la-Ville Road from its previous home in Mintflowe...
DATE: Feb 24, 2010
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ALBANY, New York (AP) — Wall Street bonuses were up 17 percent to over $20 billion in 2009, the year taxpayers bailed out the financial sector after its meltdown, New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said yesterday.
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DATE: Feb 24, 2010
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