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NEW YORK (Reuters) - MBIA Inc, the world's largest bond insurer, on Friday said it had asked Fitch Ratings to withdraw its insurer financial strength ratings for six units, including MBIA Insurance Corp., its main bond insurance arm.
Fitch is the onl...
DATE: Mar 10, 2008
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Banking and utilities proved to be the most prosperous sectors on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) last week.
Butterfield Bank and Bermuda Commercial Bank Ltd. boosted their share prices by 10 cents each to close up at $18.10 and ...
DATE: Mar 10, 2008
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SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Marvell Technology Group Ltd., the maker of chips for Apple Inc.'s iPod media player, beat analysts' estimates with its fourth-quarter profit and sales.
Net income was $1.3 million, or break-even, compared wi...
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The Chamber of Commerce celebrated International Women's Day by inviting women who have excelled in the workforce.
More than 100 women were chosen to attend the annual event which saw Minister Paula Cox and Attorney General Kim Wilson mingle with pro...
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BEIJING (Bloomberg) — China's inflation probably surged to another 11-year high in February on snowstorms that disrupted food supplies, making an interest-rate increase more likely.
Consumer prices rose 7.9 percent from a year earlier, according to t...
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CHICAGO (AP) — Like their peers elsewhere, the students at a one-of-a-kind public elementary school on the South Side of Chicago are dazzled by pop-culture stars — Beyonce and Common, Kanye West and Lil' Wayne, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade.
Listen cl...
DATE: Mar 10, 2008
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Former Max Re chief executive officer Bob Cooney said it was a tough and emotional decision to leave the company he had built up from scratch after a restatement of five years of earnings, writes Jonathan Kent.
Mr. Cooney volunteered his resignation ...
DATE: Mar 10, 2008
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Butterfield Bank moved to assure investors in its Carlyle Group private-equity partnership fund that their investments have no exposure to the buyout specialists' mortgage-linked fund that was suspended from trading last Friday.
Carlyle Capital Corp....
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Q. What do you think about investing in a share or two of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Class B? It is expensive, but Warren Buffett seems to be a genius. - FP, via the Internet
A. Although the diversified holding company's Class B shares, trading at aroun...
DATE: Mar 08, 2008
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For years I have been begging people not to use tax withholding as a forced savings tool.
I understand the reasoning. Times are tight and people want some financial security, even if it means letting the federal government keep their money out of fea...
DATE: Mar 08, 2008
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