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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Assured Guaranty Corp., the eighth- biggest US municipal bond insurer, had its credit rating raised to the highest investment grade, boosting its efforts to win more public finance business.Moody's Investors servi...
DATE: Jul 16, 2007
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Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper has suggested that Bermuda-based Ariel Re is keen to mount a takeover of a Lloyd's of London insurer.
The paper cites unnamed sources in suggesting that Ariel could be the next Bermuda reinsurer to go shopping in L...
DATE: Jul 16, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — The dollar fell to a record low against the euro and the weakest in 26 years versus the pound on speculation declining consumer spending will weaken the economy and dim the allure of US assets.The US currency dropped a fifth st...
DATE: Jul 16, 2007
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HOUSTON (Bloomberg) — Three British ex-bankers have told a US judge they've discovered evidence in Enron Corp. civil litigation files that could prove their aren't guilty of defrauding the defunct energy trader, as prosecutors claim.The bankers, all ...
DATE: Jul 16, 2007
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Bermuda-based asset manager W.P. Stewart announced on Friday a regular quarterly dividend of 15 cents per common share. The dividend is payable on August 3, 2007 to shareholders of record as of July 23, 2007.
DATE: Jul 16, 2007
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East Enders were given an insight into how to start up and run their own small business at the Bermuda Small Business Development Corporation (BSBDC) meeting.
Finance Minister Paula Cox, board members and prominent businessmen were on hand to offer a...
DATE: Jul 16, 2007
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LONDON — Britain's top share index closed up 0.3 percent after hitting a near seven-year high, as investors picked up financial stocks boosted by the takeover battle for Dutch bank ABN AMRO. The FTSE 100 closed at 6,716.7 points, up 19 or 0.28 percen...
DATE: Jul 14, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street ended an extraordinary and record-setting week yesterday by surging higher again, sending the Standard & Poor's 500 index past a trading high set in March 2000 and thrusting the Dow Jones industrial past 13,900 for the fir...
DATE: Jul 14, 2007
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A pend change to a popular credit scoring system is about to it make it much harder for people to polish their credit by riding the coattails of someone else's good payment record.Fair Isaac Corp., the creator of the widely used FICO credit scoring f...
DATE: Jul 14, 2007
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Butterfield Bank's share price on the Bermuda Stock Exchange closed to within a point of its all-time high and equalled its 52-week record yesterday.
Its shares rose by 50 cents (0.8 percent) to finish on $61.50 after trading 2,800 shares.
The only o...
DATE: Jul 14, 2007
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