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Bermuda-based Seadrill Ltd. has extended the maturity of the options for its Employee Share Ownership Plan, it was announced on Monday.
In May 2005, Seadrill set up the plan and authorised its board of directors to grant and allocate five million sha...
DATE: Jan 07, 2010
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Assured Guaranty Ltd., the holding company for direct bond insurers Assured Guaranty Corp. and Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp., has named Nicholas Proud as senior managing director, international.
Mr. Proud will report directly to Séan McCarthy, chi...
DATE: Jan 07, 2010
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - New York Governor David Paterson plans to open an insurance exchange to take a portion of the North American business placed at the Lloyd's of London market.
The exchange may bring an additional $7 billion to $10 billion in pre...
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index ended higher for a fifth straight session yesterday, backed by a three-week high in the price of gold that lifted producers such as Barrick Gold and Goldcorp.
Gold prices topped $1,140 an ounce as the US...
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The Bank of Bermuda HSBC is warning customers to be vigilant following the latest online scam in the form of a fraudulent email trying to obtain their account details,.
The email warns the client that their bank Internet access has been temporarily s...
DATE: Jan 07, 2010
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Service industries in the US barely expanded in December, underscoring Federal Reserve forecasts that the economic recovery will be slow to develop.
The Institute for Supply Management's index of non- manufacturing businesses t...
DATE: Jan 07, 2010
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Catastrophe bond sales are set to remain high this year after lower prices and a quiet hurricane season produced a record fourth quarter, according to Risk Management Solutions Inc.
Eight bonds totaLling almost $1.1 billion ecl...
DATE: Jan 07, 2010
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan's aged finance minister is to quit due to poor health after weeks of exhausting wrangling over the budget, the Nikkei news agency said yesterday, a fresh blow for Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama as he struggles with a frail econ...
DATE: Jan 06, 2010
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index ended at a 15-month high yesterday, led by a rally in shares of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan after the big fertiliser company was upgraded to "outperform" by Credit Suisse.
Potash Corp. was the leading h...
DATE: Jan 06, 2010
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LONDON - Britain's leading share index ended 0.4 percent higher, hitting a fresh 16-month closing high, as banks and commodity stocks rose, but gains were capped by a fall in drugmakers on concerns over vaccine sales. The FTSE 100 closed at 5,522.5 p...
DATE: Jan 06, 2010
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