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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Moody's Investors Service may lower Bermuda-based Security Capital Assurance Ltd.'s debt ratings and those of its operating subsidiaries after the bond insurer delayed filing its 10-K statement and said it may add a "going conc...
DATE: Mar 06, 2008
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BF&M Ltd. climbed 50 cents (2.3 percent) to close up at $22.45 on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
The insurance company also traded 2,366 shares.
Butterfield Bank and Belco Holdings Ltd. experienced some movement, with...
DATE: Mar 05, 2008
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It is quite true these days that sometimes the free software is as good or is just enough to beat paying the price for the retail counterpart, if one exists. I just have to think of OpenOffice.org and GIMP, both of which I sometimes use instead of Mi...
DATE: Mar 05, 2008
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Ahmed Elamin
Bermuda-based international underwriter of specialty insurance and reinsurance in property and casualty Argo Group International Holdings has announced that its Trident Insurance Services unit has acquired Massamont Insurance Agency Inc.
The move wil...
DATE: Mar 05, 2008
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The growing challenges of planning and saving for retirement in Bermuda were highlighted in a talk by The Argus Group at a Hamilton Rotary Club meeting yesterday.
Lauren Bell, executive vice-president of life and pensions at The Argus Group, spoke of...
DATE: Mar 05, 2008
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) clarified yesterday that it does not classify Bermuda as a "tax haven" after a story published by the Reuters financial news agency yesterday suggested otherwise.
The Island appeared on a list of jurisdictions in...
DATE: Mar 05, 2008
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SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) - Facebook Inc., the second most-popular social-networking website, hired Google Inc. veteran Sheryl Sandberg as operating chief, mining its rival's ranks to gain expertise in online advertising sales.
Ms Sandberg, 38, will ...
DATE: Mar 05, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) - Platinum Underwriters Holdings Ltd. has named one of its directors non-executive chairman and said the reinsurer's existing chairman will retire from the board at the end of his term.
Dan Carmichael will assume the role of chairman af...
DATE: Mar 05, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — BlackRock Inc., the largest publicly traded US asset manager, pulled out of a $3.2 billion class-action settlement against Bermuda-based Tyco International Ltd. to pursue its own shareholder lawsuit.
BlackRock filed an "opt-out...
DATE: Mar 05, 2008
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CUPERTINO, California (Reuters) - Apple Inc. has no plans to declare a dividend or buy back stock, chief executive Steve Jobs told the annual meeting of shareholders yesterday, adding that iPhone sales were on track.
Mr. Jobs said he was confident th...
DATE: Mar 05, 2008
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