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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar rose on Friday as investors scaled back bets for another aggressive Federal Reserve interest rate cut next week and on optimism a $150 billion stimulus package would help support the US economy.
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DATE: Jan 28, 2008
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Bermuda-based Max Capital Group Ltd. expect 2007 to be the best year in its eight-year history, according to chairman and CEO Marston Becker.
In a letter to shareholders giving an update on the company's performance and progress last year and outlook...
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TORONTO (Reuters) - A winning week on the Toronto Stock Exchange after last Monday's brutal start may have heartened frazzled investors, but analysts are still slashing their forecasts for the Canadian market.
The TSX's main index, the S&P/TSX compos...
DATE: Jan 28, 2008
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Bermuda-based bond insurer Assured Guaranty is well placed to take advantage of the difficulties of its bigger rivals, a JPMorgan analyst said on Friday.
In a note to clients, Andrew Wessel said Assured had secured seven times its normal monthly shar...
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - Billionaires Warren Buffett and Christopher Flowers are buying stakes in European insurers, prompting some less-influential investors to anticipate a rebound for the industry's shares after a 23 percent slump since June.
Mr. Buff...
DATE: Jan 28, 2008
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Bermuda has become home to the very first recipient of the Institute of Legal Executives' (ILEX) top honour, the President's Award, after it was awarded to Mello Jones & Martin legal executive David Addington
The award, which is given at the discreti...
DATE: Jan 28, 2008
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LONDON (AP) - The Northern Rock crisis has revealed systemic failures at Britain's financial regulator after it failed to spot the reckless behavior of the bank's directors, British lawmakers said in a report published on Saturday.
The Financial Serv...
DATE: Jan 28, 2008
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A total of 63,120 shares worth $1,090,287.95 were traded on the Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) last week.
The Index closed down 58.46 points (1.19 percent) at 4,772.28.
BELCO Holdings Ltd. climbed 25 cents (1.19 percent) to close up...
DATE: Jan 28, 2008
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The United States economy and US dollars are not dead. Last week, at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Advanced Financial Planning, we were privileged to hear a commentary on the United States economy by David Malpass, Bear Stear...
DATE: Jan 26, 2008
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Q. Why haven't my shares of Waste Management Inc. (WMI) done better? Is it still mixed up in all those accounting problems? - VC, via the Internet
A. The nation's largest garbage-collection and recycling company hopes the odour of past accounting pro...
DATE: Jan 26, 2008
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