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BOSTON (Bloomberg) - Tyco International Ltd., the world's biggest maker of security systems, agreed to buy the security unit of Toronto-based FirstService Corp. for about $187 million to boost sales in the banking and energy markets.
FirstService Sec...
DATE: Apr 16, 2008
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PRINCETON, New Jersey (Bloomberg) - Total March passenger traffic for 15 US airlines rose 2.2 percent to 68.30 billion revenue passenger miles from 66.85 billion a year earlier.
A revenue passenger mile equals one paying passenger carried one mile.
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DATE: Apr 16, 2008
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Butterfield Bank bounced back to increase its share value by five cents (0.3 percent) to close up at $17.35 on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
The bank also traded 1,500 shares, as did Bermuda Commercial Bank Ltd. - wa...
DATE: Apr 16, 2008
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A property catastrophe loss costing $30 to $50 billion would be required to change the direction of softening reinsurance rates, terms and conditions.
That is the main finding from broker Aon Re Global's regional expectations report for traditional p...
DATE: Apr 16, 2008
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - Carphone Warehouse Group plc. and Telefonica SA's O2 wireless unit said they will cut the price of Apple Inc.'s eight-gigabyte iPhone in the UK to £169 ($331) from £269 beginning today.
Customers at Carphone Warehouse, Europe's l...
DATE: Apr 16, 2008
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Bermuda is one of the key players in the Caribbean region in terms of generation of golf centre revenue.
That is according to the KPMG Caribbean Golf Benchmark Survey, which was officially unveiled to delegates at a seminar held yesterday by Steve Wo...
DATE: Apr 16, 2008
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TORONTO (Reuters) - A record high for oil prices drove the Toronto Stock Exchange's main index higher yesterday, with stronger resource issues overshadowed lingering worries about a weak earnings season.
Toronto's energy sector gained 1.8 percent as ...
DATE: Apr 16, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) — Crude oil prices rose to within a penny of $114 a barrel yesterday, setting a new record as concerns mounted about global supplies.
Traders honed in on a report by the International Energy Agency that said Russian oil production dropp...
DATE: Apr 16, 2008
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LONDON (AP) — Tesco PLC, the British-based grocer rolling out a series of stores across the US, reported a 12.3-percent rise in full-year net profit yesterday, cheering investors amid an otherwise gloomy retail market.
Tesco also hit back at critics ...
DATE: Apr 16, 2008
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Montpelier US, the Hartford-based subsidiary of Bermuda-based Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd., yesterday announced that Francis (Bud) Lockwood has joined as the president of Montpelier Underwriting Inc. and member of the Montpelier US executive committee...
DATE: Apr 16, 2008
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