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Insurance broker Willis Group Holdings Ltd. has doubled its revenues and geographic presence in North America with the completion of its $2.1 billion acquisition of Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Company (HRH), one of the world's largest insurance and risk manag...
DATE: Oct 02, 2008
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TORONTO (Reuters) — The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index ended lower yesterday, pressured by economic worries and weakening oil prices, but it finished well off its morning lows on optimism that US lawmakers would push through a revamped rescue pl...
DATE: Oct 02, 2008
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Car sales in Bermuda have fallen in the wake of the credit and sub-prime crisis and recent financial turmoil to hit the markets.
The fall-out from the economic woes in the US has already started to have a big impact on Bermuda's vehicle sales sector ...
DATE: Oct 02, 2008
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Bermuda's businesses and corporate professionals are waiting to see what will happen to the property market in the wake of the US economic crisis.
That is the view of Penny MacIntyre, commercial sales and leasing agent at Rego Realtors, who said that...
DATE: Oct 02, 2008
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Bermudian men have been steadily losing ground in the job market for the last four years, according to a Labour Market Indicators report issued yesterday.
While 1,488 jobs were added to the Bermuda economy between 2004 and 2007, 90 percent (1,343) of...
DATE: Oct 02, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) — The financial markets saw some relative calm yesterday as investors uneasily awaited a Senate vote on the banking bailout plan, with Wall Street falling only moderately and the credit markets still showing signs of strain. The Dow Jon...
DATE: Oct 02, 2008
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Temporary employees play a key role in a company's success — that is according to the latest survey by recruitment agency Expertise Ltd.
The Job Market Survey, which was carried out in August on a confidential web-based basis to work out the use of t...
DATE: Oct 02, 2008
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Bermuda insurers RenaissanceRe, Platinum Underwriters and Allied World Assurance Company last night revealed their initial loss estimates resulting from Hurricanes Gustav and Ike.
RenRe expects its combined losses from the storms to run to around $27...
DATE: Oct 02, 2008
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange fell 44.92 points, closing at 3,924.91, yesterday with both Butterfield Bank and Bermuda Press (Holdings) Ltd shares dropping value.
Butterfield Bank stock fell $0.25 (two percent) to close at $12.25 after 27,...
DATE: Oct 02, 2008
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Despite turmoil in the world markets and uncertainty over the future of the US's $700 billion financial rescue plan set to go back before lawmakers tomorrow, the Bermuda International Business Association (BIBA) hosted a successful financial services...
DATE: Oct 01, 2008
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