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The revised estimate of US fourth-quarter GDP, released last week, was even more negative than the dreadful figure the government statisticians presented in January.
Analysts' consensus expectations had been lowered over the past month, but the data ...
DATE: Mar 02, 2009
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PARIS (Bloomberg) French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he doesn't rule out that Switzerland might be placed on a list of uncooperative tax havens being drawn up by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.[
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DATE: Mar 02, 2009
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Hardy Underwriting Bermuda Ltd. intends to start writing business from a unit based on the Island by May this year.
Chief executive officer Barbara Merry told The Royal Gazette that the new Hardy Bermuda Ltd. operation would employ five or six people...
DATE: Mar 02, 2009
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Argus Group Holdings Ltd. is about to appoint a chief operating officer — a new role designed to strengthen senior management in running a company that has grown in size and complexity in recent years.
Chief executive officer Gerald Simons said Argus...
DATE: Mar 02, 2009
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Q. When will my Alcoa Inc. shares revive? — P.N., via the Internet
A. Prospects for the aluminium producer that ranks No. 1 in the US and No. 3 in the world are dependent upon improvement in the global economy.
Aluminium is a commodity business that ...
DATE: Feb 28, 2009
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From time to time, I toil mentally putting together Grand Theories. I have several, many merely the nucleus of an idea. One, however, recently came to fruition while I was re-reading the collected works of Darby Conley, the author of the "Get Fuzzy" ...
DATE: Feb 28, 2009
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Pinching pennies, Bermudian Style. For the first time in many years, I am seeing more gatherers of nature's bounty along the railway trails and side roads in Bermuda.
The loquats are ripening; the Surinam cherries and bay grapes have had a run. In pr...
DATE: Feb 28, 2009
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Shares of Butterfield Bank fell 1.3 percent yesterday to extend its decline this year.
The Royal Gazette/ Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) Index also hit a new low for the year and is now trading at levels not seen since December 2003.
Butterfield fell 1...
DATE: Feb 28, 2009
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TORONTO (Reuters) -Toronto's main stock index retreated yesterday after three days of gains as the US government's announcement that it will take an equity stake in Citigroup put pressure on the heavily weighted financial sector.
Financial shares dro...
DATE: Feb 28, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — US stocks slid, sending the Standard & Poor's 500 Index to a 12-year low, as the government cut shareholders' stake in Citigroup Inc. by 74 percent and the economy shrank at a faster pace than previously estimated.
Citigroup pl...
DATE: Feb 28, 2009
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