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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Advertising Standards Authority has banned US oil major ExxonMobil from continuing to show a TV advert saying liquefied natural gas is one of the cleanest fuels, the watchdog said yesterday.
Four viewers had challenged Ex...
DATE: Sep 04, 2008
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks fell for a second day as commodity prices declined further, extending bear markets for such raw-materials and energy producers as Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. and EnCana Corp.
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DATE: Sep 04, 2008
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - American International Group Inc sees China becoming a much larger part of its general insurance business within the next five years, Nicholas Walsh, executive vice-president of the foreign general insurance division, said yester...
DATE: Sep 04, 2008
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LONDON (AP) — British Airways PLC said yesterday that market conditions remain very difficult as the benefits of recent falls in the price of oil have been outweighed by a stronger US dollar.
BA shares fell almost four percent after it released traff...
DATE: Sep 04, 2008
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Bermudian students are set to get a head start in their careers after The Bermuda Hotel Association (BHA) announced its BHA Scholarship 2008 winners.
John Harvey, CEO of the BHA announced the recipients were Edison Jecoa Tucker, who is studying for B...
DATE: Sep 04, 2008
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British Airways (BA) has been inundated with customers after bookings and flights following the collapse of Zoom Airlines last Thursday.
In a statement on the company's website, Zoom, which started its Bermuda service in June 2007, blamed rising fuel...
DATE: Sep 04, 2008
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Butterfield Bank has appointed Bob Wilson as senior vice-president and head of Bermuda banking with overall responsibility for retail, corporate and electronic banking.
Mr. Wilson joined Butterfield in 1994 as senior lending manager with the bank's L...
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - Signet Group Plc., the world's largest jewellery-store owner, said second-quarter profit fell 48 percent after a slump in US consumer confidence hurt sales.
Net income dropped to $19.1 million, or 1.2 cents a share, in the 13 wee...
DATE: Sep 04, 2008
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's services sector contracted at a slower pace than expected in August, but a gloomy consumer mood failed to improve and analysts still expect the economy to shrink and interest rates to fall.
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DATE: Sep 04, 2008
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Bermuda insurer, pension provider and investment firm BF&M Ltd. yesterday announced a $13.2 million profit for the first six months of this year — up eight percent on the same period last year.
Return on shareholders' equity was 20 percent, as chief ...
DATE: Sep 03, 2008
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