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Bermuda-based Digicel Ltd., today announced it has completed a $335 million corporate bond offering, the proceeds of which will be used to acquire a 35.8 percent stake in Digicel Holdings (Central America) Limited and provide funding for general corp...
DATE: Mar 12, 2009
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Over the past two decades the psychological landscape of the Internet has changed from a place of fear and risk, to a warm, fuzzy community of close friends for its younger users.
This is the gist of the result of a study of studies, whose results we...
DATE: Mar 11, 2009
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Attracting hedge fund business to Bermuda was the focus for a delegation of the Island's top international business executives who travelled to Canada this week.
The representatives from Bermuda's alternative investment industry hosted presentations ...
DATE: Mar 11, 2009
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LONDON (AP) — Britain's retailers saw sales fall again in February partly as a result of heavy snow across large areas of the country that kept potential consumers stuck indoors and the stores bringing an end to their massive discounting over the New...
DATE: Mar 11, 2009
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PARIS (AP) — The global economy will shrink this year as the world enters "a Great Recession," the head of the International Monetary Fund said.
Speaking in a taped interview with French television channel France 24, Dominique Strauss-Kahn said econo...
DATE: Mar 11, 2009
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's key stock index rose four percent yesterday to close at its highest level in over two weeks as Citigroup said it was profitable during the first two months 2009, easing some investor concerns about the battered US financ...
DATE: Mar 11, 2009
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Fitch Ratings yesterday downgraded Butterfield Bank's long-term debt rating from A to A-, citing a $121 million charge in the fourth quarter of last year relating to US mortgage-backed securities.
Fitch also affirmed Butterfield's short-term customer...
DATE: Mar 11, 2009
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The $173 billion government rescue of American International Group Inc is stoking resentment among investors who see it as a backdoor taxpayer bailout of Goldman Sachs and other banks.
Six months after the government stepped in s...
DATE: Mar 11, 2009
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Max Capital Group Ltd. yesterday said the return on its alternative investments for the first two months of this year is expected to be around two percent, or an increase in value of approximately $18 million.
The specialty insurer and reinsurer, whi...
DATE: Mar 11, 2009
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It proved to be a quiet day on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday, with the Index opening and closing at 2,575.54.
A total of 2,100 shares worth $13,650 were traded during the course of the day, as Butterfield Bank account...
DATE: Mar 11, 2009
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