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Bermuda's technology users will be able to kick off the New Year in style with a unique insight into optimal application performance, information security and operating costs through two presentations put on by Citirix at this week's Wired Wednesday ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - US stock investors could be in for further declines this week, which would worsen the markets' dismal start to 2008, as banks are due to post quarterly results that some observers expect may contain more mortgage-related surprise...
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new york (Bloomberg) — The dollar fell for a third week versus the euro, its longest losing streak since November, on speculation the Federal Reserve will increase the pace of interest rate cuts to avoid a recession.
The US currency declined one perc...
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Argus Group Holdings Ltd. boosted its share price after a successful week's trading on the Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) last week.
Its share value inched up 25 cents (1.64 percent) to close at $15.50, with 1,895 shares traded.
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NEW YORK (AP) — With a falling dollar sweetening the deal for international travellers, a record-setting number of tourists visited the city last year, spending an estimated $28 billion, tourism officials said yesterday.
With a final count still pend...
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Trip-wire volatility has marked the Toronto Stock Exchange's first full trading week of the year and observers predict the bouncy, roller-coaster ride is far from over.
The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index faces a number of hea...
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Catastrophe risk management specialist Risk Management Solutions (RMS) has released a 10-year retrospective report on the Ice Storm that devastated Ontario and Quebec and part of the northeastern US in 1998.
Despite the positive advances made in the ...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Ingersoll-Rand Co., the maker of Thermo King refrigerated trucks, took a $277 million charge in the fourth quarter, boosting its reserve to cover asbestos claims through 2053.
The charge, which is after tax, refle...
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LONDON - Alea Group Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd. said it expects to record an after-tax loss of about $8.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2007, after it has reached an agreement to fully and finally commute all exposure under an excess of loss reinsuran...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — US state and local governments sold a smaller portion of bonds with insurance during the first full week of 2008 than they did last month, as several insurers seek to raise capital to defend their AAA ratings.
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