76470 results returned for search: "" category "Business"
LONDON — Britain's top share index shed earlier gains to end down 0.5 percent, after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's comments that US inflation was not about to subside, deflating hopes of an interest rate cut. The FTSE 100 closed at 6,632.8 ...
DATE: Jun 06, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
An 8.5-percent rise in the share price of insurer BF&M Ltd. helped to push up The Royal Gazette Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) index on Monday.
BF&M gained $1.50 to close the day at $19.25, just 25 cents short of its 52-week high, as 2,600 shares were ...
DATE: Jun 06, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
West End Properties Ltd. v Clyde Best.
Allen Robinson v Lenard Turini.
In the matter of the Companies Act 1981, section 261(6), in the matter of CSC International Co. Ltd.
In the matter of an application for judicial review and the matter of the admi...
DATE: Jun 06, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
A casual conversation at a hedge fund conference highlighted a telling difference between Bermuda and some rival offshore jurisdictions and showed why Bermuda continues to be held in higher regard than many competing financial jurisdictions as an ord...
DATE: Jun 06, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — A Blackstone Group LP-led group is acquiring Alliant Insurance Services Inc. as private equity firms continue a record pace for buyouts.Terms of the transaction weren't disclosed, the companies said in a statement sent on Monda...
DATE: Jun 06, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Bermuda-based Ironshore Inc. has announced that Mike Mitrovic has joined its professional liability facility IronPro as President, IronPro Claims. Mitrovic teams with IronPro president Greg Flood to lead the growth and development of this newly creat...
DATE: Jun 06, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
For an Island as reliant on internet connectivity as Bermuda the advent of deliberate cyberspace attacks of a magnitude that can virtually cripple a country — as experienced by Estonia last month — is worrying.
Whether such an attack could be mounted...
DATE: Jun 06, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
Twelve Bermudian university students will get the chance to work a stint at three of the Island's international businesses this summer under a scheme aimed at giving locals a head start in their career.
The Summer Internship Programme (SIP), sponsore...
DATE: Jun 06, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Tyco International Ltd. was sued by its bond trustee, Bank of New York Co. Inc., which wants a court order resolving a dispute over how much bondholders should be compensated when Tyco is broken up into three piec...
DATE: Jun 06, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Microsoft has surely made a breakthrough with its new "Surface Computing" concept, which it unveiled last week. Microsoft Surface is a 30-inch interactive display set into a table form and it goes beyond the typical touch screen. The surface of the ...
DATE: Jun 06, 2007
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
