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The latest retail sales index figures, released the day after inflation in Bermuda was reported to have dropped to 3.1 percent, reveal residents on business trips and vacations declared $6.3 million-worth of overseas purchases when they returned to t...
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP's former managing partner in Washington will pay $41,000 to settle US Securities and Exchange Commission claims he used inside information about a JPMorgan Chase & Co. acquisition to make illegal tr...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — American Airlines stranded passengers on the runway more than any other US carrier in the past half-year, trapping them for hours often without water or working toilets, according to a passengers group.Grounded travellers sat f...
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Bermuda kitchen designer Geraldine McCaffrey has been judged one of the four best in North America for an eye-catching creation installed in a Bermuda home.
The design has already featured on a front-cover of rg magazine and could now be in line for ...
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index ended sharply higher, boosted by resource issues, as healthy US economic data put investors in a buying mood after a week of volatility.The S&P/TSX composite index finished up 135.19 points,...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., the sixth-largest US insurer by market value, will record a $99 million pretax cost in the second quarter after losing an arbitration ruling over reinsurance obligations.The dispute stemm...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's top securities regulator says he is generally satisfied that new disclosure rules are giving investors a clearer picture of how much public companies are paying top executives and provide useful insight into the reasoni...
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Bermuda-based insurer GeoVera Insurance Holdings Ltd. was scheduled to begin trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market yesterday — but it never happened.
That was because the company's initial public offering (IPO), slated for Tuesday, was postponed indefin...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Tyco International Ltd., which is splitting into three companies at the end of this month, will post a $500 million pretax expense in the second quarter for the impairment of assets in its power-systems unit.The s...
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A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of A+ (superior) and issuer credit ratings of "aa-" of the reinsurance and insurance subsidiaries of Bermuda-based Everest Re Group Ltd. The outlook for all ratings is stable.
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