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I have ignored the Twitter fad for some time now. I just do not have the time to send text messages to provide details of my life.
Yet Twitter seems to be popular among the younger journalists just starting in the profession, as I can see from the re...
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Investment losses wiped out a profitable underwriting performance for Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd., which reported a net loss of $47.7 million for the fourth quarter.
Operating income totalled $57 million for the three months ended December 31, or 68 ...
DATE: Feb 18, 2009
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LONDON (Reuters) - Part-nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland will pay out only the legal minimum in bonuses for last year, totalling £175 million ($249 million), as the government sought to quell public anger over payouts for bankers.
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The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) fell for a sixth successive day as power company Belco Holdings Ltd. dipped 2.7 percent.
The BSX Index closed the day at 2,955.58, down 8.22 points, or 0.28 percent.
Belco fell 45 cents to $16.05 on th...
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DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Corp., presenting a dire outlook for the future, said yesterday it may need $30 billion in total government financing to weather the economic downturn and would cut 47,000 jobs worldwide and shutter five more US factorie...
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london (Bloomberg) — Scor SE, France's biggest reinsurer, sold $200 million of three-year bonds to transfer the risk of losses on US earthquakes and hurricanes, the first issue of its kind since the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
"Scor's d...
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Catastrophe reinsurance specialist IPC Holdings Ltd. passed a stern test of its business model by making net income of $90.4 million last year.
The 15-year-old Bermuda company's net income for the year was down by more than three quarters compared to...
DATE: Feb 18, 2009
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HOUSTON/ST JOHN'S, Antigua (Reuters) - Texas billionaire Allen Stanford and three of his companies were charged with "massive ongoing fraud" yesterday as federal agents swooped in on his US headquarters.
In a complaint filed in federal court in Dalla...
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SYDNEY (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Aquarius Platinum Ltd., a producer of the metal in South Africa and Zimbabwe, signed an initial accord to buy Ridge Mining Plc for A$156 million ($99 million) in shares to add resources and output.
Aquarius agreed t...
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LONDON (Reuters) - British inflation fell much less than expected in January, official data showed yesterday, but the surprisingly strong figures should not stand in the way of further monetary policy easing from the Bank of England.
Higher prices fo...
DATE: Feb 18, 2009
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