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The slow trickle of insurers setting up in Bermuda started again last month, with two companies incorporating on the Island during September.
Nautilus Reinsurance Ltd., a Class 2 self-managing reinsurer, was formed on September 3, with Class 3A insur...
DATE: Oct 19, 2009
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Travel agency C Travel plans to downsize its Queen Street office and have many of its staff working from home via the Internet by early next year.
The company's chief executive officer, Carl Paiva, said the plan marked a "revolutionary shift in our b...
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A Bermuda-based family office and wealth management firm has announced plans to expand overseas with the setting up of new offices in the US and Canada to meet growing customer demand.
Family Office Reporting Solutions (FORS) Ltd., which provides ser...
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Stevedoring Services Ltd.'s profits plunged more than 60 percent in the year up to the end of March 2009 as the volume of goods imported through Hamilton docks slumped.
And company chairman Henry Hayward said in a letter to shareholders, dated last F...
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Banks were hard hit on The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) last week.
LOM (Holdings) Ltd. slipped 65 cents (16.25 percent) to $3.35, with 500 shares traded, while Butterfield Bank's common shares dropped 10 cents (2.04 percent) to $4.80, as 3,400 shares...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar recovered some of the week's losses on Friday, as news of a large quarterly loss at Bank of America and flagging consumer confidence dulled investor demand for higher-yielding, higher-risk currencies.
The greenback hit...
DATE: Oct 19, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - Fidelity Investments, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Paulson & Co. are gaining from the surge in US life-insurance stocks after placing bets on an industry that lost $52 billion last year.
Fidelity became the biggest shareholder ...
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A forward-thinking Bermuda-based IT and technology solutions provider has taken full advantage of the economic crisis to boost its staffbase, open new offices and launch a suite of new services.
Fireminds, which is run by ambitious entrepreneur Micha...
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index closed flat on Friday as Toronto Dominion Bank and other banks fell after Bank of America Corp. reported a quarterly loss, but gold-mining shares provided some lift.
With the price of gold firming, four ...
DATE: Oct 19, 2009
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) - The Democratic chairman and top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee said they will move carefully to revamp the way the US taxes companies' foreign profits after a report said commonly advocated overhaul options have f...
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