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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling appointed James Crosby, a former chief executive officer of Britain's biggest mortgage lender, to study ways to improve the market for home loans.
Crosby, who led HBOS Plc until 2006, ...
DATE: Apr 10, 2008
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Jewellery giant the Signet Group is tentatively planning to redomicile to Bermuda.
The London-based company stated in its year-end results release yesterday that discussions between directors and major investors had led it to believe that most shareh...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street extended its losses yesterday as a rise in oil prices and a profit warning from United Parcel Service Inc. raised investors' anxiety about the well-being of the economy.
Technology names were among the steepest decliners, ...
DATE: Apr 10, 2008
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Bermuda has dropped two places in the Economist Intelligence Unit's 2008 e-Readiness rankings from 15th to 17th, but has also increased its score out of 10 from 8.15 to 8.22.
The annual e-readiness ranking of the world's largest economies, which uses...
DATE: Apr 10, 2008
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LONDON (BestWire) - Insurance industry pioneer Maurice (Hank) Greenberg is throwing his support behind the leadership of the world's largest insurance market, saying he's confident it won't repeat the mistakes of the past.
Greenberg's vote of confide...
DATE: Apr 10, 2008
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The search is on to find the brightest, best and unsung heroes in technology at the Computer Society of Bermuda (CSB) Community Support: TechAwards 2008.
The 2008 TechAwards Committee is calling on people to nominate their worthy winners to honour or...
DATE: Apr 10, 2008
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Digicel claims it will stay close to its core business of service delivery rather than venture into content development media ownership.
That is according to The Jamaica Gleaner, which quotes Colm Delves, CEO of the Digicel Group, as denying the com...
DATE: Apr 10, 2008
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SAO PAULO (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Cosan Ltd., parent of the world's biggest sugar-cane processor, delayed plans to acquire all the stock of its operating unit.
Brazil's securities regulator, known as CVM, "didn't express its opposition" to pushin...
DATE: Apr 10, 2008
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Argus Group Holdings Ltd. bounced back from the previous day's losses, climbing 45 cents (2.9 percent) to close at $16 on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
The insurance company also traded 7,500 shares throughout the da...
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — The pound traded close to a record low of 80 pence per euro after UK consumer confidence slid to the lowest level in almost four years, boosting speculation the Bank of England will cut interest rates tomorrow.
Britain's currency...
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