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The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) index fell 16 points yesterday as insurer Argus Group Holdings fell for a third successive day.
The BSX dipped 15.97 points, or 0.54 percent, to close on 2,963.80.
Argus fell 25 cents to $7.75 on the t...
DATE: Feb 17, 2009
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Role: President and Managing Consultant, Fireminds Ltd.
What is your job? I am the founder and lead consultant for Fireminds Ltd. (incorporated in 2001) a technology consulting company based in Bermuda serving clients locally, in Europe and N...
DATE: Feb 17, 2009
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CFOs STAYING ON THE JOB: Even professional money counters are worried about their piggy banks.
In a recent random survey of American chief financial officers of companies with 20 or more employees, 27 percent said they plan to work more than they did...
DATE: Feb 17, 2009
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NEW YORK (AP) - Bermuda-based Nordic American Tanker Shipping Ltd. on Friday reported its fourth-quarter profit multiplied as total voyage revenue rose nearly 2 percent.
For the three months ended December 31, the company posted net income of $17.2 m...
DATE: Feb 17, 2009
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Lay-offs, redundancies, re-domiciling. Different words all potentially resulting in what many fear will be the loss of their jobs.
Bermuda has for a long time been blessed with a strong economy but in recent months dozens of redundancies have been an...
DATE: Feb 17, 2009
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Finance Minister Paula Cox yesterday presented $12,000 to the six successful applicants to earn passage through to the second round of the Economic Empowerment Zone design competition.
The competition was seeking entries for idea to establish various...
DATE: Feb 17, 2009
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ROME (Reuters) - Desperate to pull their economies out of recession, Group of Seven central bankers meeting in Rome this weekend exchanged notes on what they can do once interest rates cannot go down any further.
With US and Japanese rates already vi...
DATE: Feb 16, 2009
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan's economy contracted at the fastest pace in 35 years as a collapse in global demand battered the world's second-largest economy.
Japan's gross domestic product, or the total value of the nation's goods and services, dropped at an a...
DATE: Feb 16, 2009
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Now is an opportune time to be building up a new global insurance company, according to Clive Tobin, chief executive officer of Bermuda start-up Torus Insurance Holdings Ltd.
With upward pressure on rates and industry capacity shrinking in the midst ...
DATE: Feb 16, 2009
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It was a dismal week on The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange as falls in the value of two of the largest domestic companies produced a fall of 4.27 percent for the BSX Index.
Insurer and pensions provider Argus Group Holdings Ltd. was the worst...
DATE: Feb 16, 2009
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