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Bermuda's Family Centre is set to benefit from a windfall from Pengrowth Energy Trust at their 2007 Fall Investment Conference for the second year running.
The conference, which is being held at the Fairmont Southampton resort for the third consecuti...
DATE: Sep 21, 2007
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Capital G has joined the growing list of Bermuda's banks considering their next move following the US Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates by half a percent earlier in the week.
On Tuesday the Fed slashed its interest rates from 5.25 perc...
DATE: Sep 21, 2007
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It is one of the more unusual business opportunities out there - take ownership of a 39-year-old wooden sailing ship that doesn't float and is a replica of the 400-year-old Deliverance that salied from Bermuda to the New World in 1610.
The ship has b...
DATE: Sep 21, 2007
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An International Monetary Fund inspection of Bermuda's anti-money laundering enforcement has left the Island's Finance Ministry admitting it has "some work to do in public and private sectors."
Finance Ministry permanent secretary Donald Scott who ha...
DATE: Sep 21, 2007
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) - Canada's dollar traded equal to the US currency for the first time in three decades, capping a five-year run on the back of booming demand for the nation's commodities.
The Canadian dollar rose as high as $1.0008, before retreat...
DATE: Sep 21, 2007
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Insurance was the biggest player on the Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
BF&M Ltd. saw their share price plummet 60 cents (3.2 percent) to close at $18.40, with 1,000 shares traded.
Elsewhere, Butterfield Bank also experien...
DATE: Sep 20, 2007
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Bermuda-based Maiden Holdings has filed to raise up to $536 million in an initial public offering.
The firm plans to trade on the Nasdaq and was formed in June to provide customised reinsurance products and services to subsid...
DATE: Sep 20, 2007
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Bermuda's banks have remained tight-lipped about plans to cut interest rates after the US Federal Reserve slashed its interest rates by half a percent for the first time in four years.
Butterfield Bank refused to be drawn on the matter, while the Ban...
DATE: Sep 20, 2007
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For a long time tourism and hospitality ruled the roost as the largest employment sector in Bermuda but it has been pushed far into the shade and today the Island's emerging red hot sector is construction.
The decline in tourism since the mid-1980s p...
DATE: Sep 20, 2007
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Promoting Bermuda as the place to be for international business is the task Bermuda International Business Association (BIBA) will be charged with when it goes Stateside next week.
BIBA will be hosting its annual New York Roundtable event next Wednes...
DATE: Sep 20, 2007
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