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Insurance and transportation was up while banks were down on the Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
BF&M Ltd. benefited the most as their share price soared 50 cents (2.6 percent) to close at $19.50, with 1,600 shares traded....
DATE: Oct 24, 2007
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Getting people to lead a healthier lifestyle - that is the idea behind a new “smoothie card” launched by Buzz cafe.
The Healthy Buzz Pass, which costs $28, entitles the holder to five medium fresh fruit smoothies from Buzz in Washington Mall or Buzz ...
DATE: Oct 24, 2007
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Bermuda’s biggest insurance and reinsurance company ACE saw its profits soar by 13 percent during a successful third quarter, a percentage rise that exactly mirrored the percentage profit loss suffered by their closest rival and neighbour XL Capital....
DATE: Oct 24, 2007
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In an amazing three-page essay I have read at least four times in an unsuccessful bid to understand "e=mc squared", Albert Einstien famously said: "You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Scientists have ...
DATE: Oct 24, 2007
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IPC Holdings saw its profits slump by just over $2 million for the third quarter in the wake of a series of earthquakes and hurricanes across the world.
Its net income dropped from $115 million, or $1.60 per common share in the same quarter last year...
DATE: Oct 24, 2007
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Oil and gas drilling contractor Nabors Industries reported a 26 percent drop in third-quarter profit, hurt by a slump in its core North American market, where a surplus of natural gas is weighing on drilling activity.
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BOSTON (Bloomberg) — Tyco International, the world's biggest maker of security systems through its ADT unit, agreed with a lender to extend the maturity of a $500 million bridge loan by six months.
The date was pushed to June 15 from December 15, Ber...
DATE: Oct 24, 2007
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Amlin has appointed the former chief executive officer of Farmers Group, Martin Feinstein as an independent non-executive director.
He will take his new post with effect from December 1.
“Marty Feinstein was an outstanding CEO of Farmers, one of the ...
DATE: Oct 24, 2007
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Following an article which appeared in yesterday's paper about Alex Dill, we have been asked by the Caines family to point out that Onion TV is a family-run business owned and operated by the Caines family and the brainchild of the project is Travis ...
DATE: Oct 24, 2007
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Specialising in niche markets has been a key component to Everest Re’s successful third quarter results, according to chairman and CEO Joe Taranto.
Mr. Taranto outlined the case for his company’s lack of exposure in areas such as small premium items ...
DATE: Oct 24, 2007
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