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LONDON(Bloomberg) — British Airways, Europe's third-largest airline, will decide in September which planes to buy to replace aircraft in its long-haul fleet.The airline, which flies direct between Bermuda and London Gatwick, is considering planes fro...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Willis Group Holdings Ltd., the world's third-largest insurance broker, bought InsuranceNoodle, a Chicago- based online broker. Terms weren't disclosed.Willis will use InsuranceNoodle's technology to win more small-business cli...
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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — The government has started distributing payments to thousands of coffee growers to help them recover from Hurricane Ivan, which devastated their fields in 2004.About 3,200 farmers across the Caribbean island will get a portio...
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DRESDEN, Germany (AP) — Hewlett-Packard Co. improved its standing on the latest list of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers.IBM Corp. still dominates with six of the top 10, including the BlueGene/L computer at the Lawrence Livermore nuclear lab. ...
DATE: Jun 29, 2007
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Insurers could be hit with claims totalling more than $500 million from this week's UK floods, according to initial estimates by catastrophe modelling specialists Risk Management Solutions.
The severe and widespread flooding, which has hit northeast ...
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks fell for fourth time in five days after the US Federal Reserve left borrowing costs unchanged and said that inflation remains the greatest risk facing the US economy, Canada's biggest export market.EnCana decline...
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Belco has announced significant year-on-year increases in its sale of electricity and gas during the second quarter.
The company's quarterly report said total kilowatt sales of electricity through May were 3.53 percent ahead of the same period in 200...
DATE: Jun 29, 2007
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Jonathan Kent
There are 19 mechanics at HWP Group but only two are Bermudian.
That is going to change as the company has started its own apprenticeship scheme that will, within five years, produce enough trained mechanics to do away with the need for the company t...
DATE: Jun 29, 2007
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The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange remained static at 5,137.77 points on a quiet day of trading with only two stocks active and no change to the value of shares.
Ten thousand shares of Argus Group changed hands without affecting the closing p...
DATE: Jun 29, 2007
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LONDON (Reuters) — Music and books retailer HMV said yesterday its annual profit more than halved to $48.1 million ($96.28 million) as it battled cut-price supermarket and online sales.The group, which runs Waterstone's bookstores as well as music sh...
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