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Should you listen to the financial experts? We see enough of them every day being paraded above the ticker tapes of CNBC, opining on their latest investment picks.
Fox Business News will soon be breathing down their necks and ours with their own grou...
DATE: Oct 15, 2007
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rista Swetz and her husband are just a few months away from reaching a money milestone. The Maryland couple will soon have saved the three months' worth of living expenses I'm always telling folks to have stashed away in case of an emergency.
Once th...
DATE: Oct 13, 2007
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BF&M Ltd. and Butterfield Bank were the main players on the Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
Both companies saw their share price drop, BF&M by 20 cents (one percent) to $19 and Butterfield Bank by 10 cents (0.5 percent) to...
DATE: Oct 13, 2007
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There's nothing wrong with fixed — the fixed-rate mortgage, that is. As the mortgage crisis has unfolded, everyone has blamed the new-fangled mortgages: Interest-only, pick-a-payment, subprime ARMs, Alt-As became pejoratives overnight.
In the midst o...
DATE: Oct 13, 2007
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AM Best has affirmed the issuer credit rating of "bbb+" of Atrium Underwriting plc.
This action removes the under review status of the rating that was applied when the takeover offer of Ariel Holdings (Bermuda) was announced in July 2007.
Subsequentl...
DATE: Oct 12, 2007
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Watch out Bermuda! That is the headline that appears above an opinion piece on the state of Bermuda's work permit regulations and the risk the Island faces of insurance and reinsurance businesses going elsewhere or outsourcing.
The article was writte...
DATE: Oct 12, 2007
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SAO PAULO (Bloomberg) — Laep Investments, a Bermuda-based private equity fund that controls the Brazilian unit of Parmalat SpA, plans to raise as much as 1.21 billion reais ($669 million) in an initial offering later this month.
Laep intends to sell ...
DATE: Oct 12, 2007
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Bermuda Container Line has completed the sale of its non-active subsidiary company, Tilbury Road Associates for around $1.5 million.
TRA was a US-based property owning subsidiary company that was not part of the core business operations of BCL and it...
DATE: Oct 12, 2007
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BOGOTA (Bloomberg) — Agrenco Limited, a Bermuda-based agricultural and biofuels company, and shareholders plan to raise as much as 1.09 billion reais ($599 million) through the sale of Brazilian depositary receipts in an initial public offering.
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DATE: Oct 12, 2007
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Smokey Robinson, Lionel Richie and Earth Wind and Fire - those are just some of the famous names who have ridden with Bermuda's new and exclusive limousine service.
Robinson et al were given the VIP treatment at the recent Bermuda Music Festival cour...
DATE: Oct 12, 2007
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