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RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.'s board of directors voted to raise its quarterly dividend for the 14th successive year.
The company, which was founded in 1993 to help fill the heightened demand for property-catastrophe reinsurance following the devastat...
DATE: Feb 20, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Higher federal and state taxes on cigarettes this year may bring the biggest drop in smoking ever, reducing the tobacco industry's annual payments to states by as much as $500 million and threatening the repayment of $37 billio...
DATE: Feb 20, 2009
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The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) index remained unchanged yesterday, stopping the rot after seven previous days of falls.
No domestic listed companies changed value as the index stayed rooted on 2,900.81.
The most heavily traded stock...
DATE: Feb 20, 2009
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index managed to eke out a small gain yesterday as energy issues strengthened on higher oil prices, managing to offset weaker gold miners, which retreated along with the price of gold.
The heavily weighted ene...
DATE: Feb 20, 2009
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PLATINUM Q4
REPORT CARD
Net income: $64.1 million compared to $102.2 million in 2007.
Combined ratio: 97.7 percent compared to 75.3 percent in 2007.
Net premiums written: $237.3 million compared to $241 million in 2007.
Platinum Underwriters Holdings...
DATE: Feb 19, 2009
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NEW YORK (AP) — MBIA Inc. said yesterday it will separate its municipal bond insurance business from the riskier operations that sent the company's finances into turmoil.
MBIA, which came under pressure in 2008 because it had insured mortgage-backed ...
DATE: Feb 19, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - Bermuda-based Global Crossing Ltd., the Internet-based telecommunications company that's grown through three acquisitions since 2006, plans to hold on to its cash "for the time being", chief executive officer John Legere said.
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DATE: Feb 19, 2009
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new york (Bloomberg) — Travis Yates, an Australian developer of applications for Apple Inc.'s iPhone, is finding there's no such thing as bad publicity.
After Nevada's Gaming Control Board sent a memo this month to casinos warning them of Yates's Bla...
DATE: Feb 19, 2009
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LONDON (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp is freezing pay and management bonuses at its UK car-making operations in 2009, the company said yesterday, as carmakers grapple with a sharp downturn in global demand.
The Japanese auto maker said Toyota Manufact...
DATE: Feb 19, 2009
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Banking giant UBS has agreed to pay $780 million and turn over once-secret Swiss banking records to settle allegations it conspired to defraud the US government of taxes owed by big clients.
As part of the deal struck in federal cou...
DATE: Feb 19, 2009
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