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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) -- Marsh & McLennan Cos., the world's largest insurance broker, said first-quarter profit fell 36 percent after its flagship unit lost US customers and the company reported lower gains from asset sales. Shares headed for their bi...
DATE: May 08, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — It was impossible to escape the comparisons with 2000 on Wall Street this past week.Not only did the Standard & Poor's 500 index pass 1,500, a level the market has not seen since the dot-com boom, but the Dow Jones industrial average ...
DATE: May 07, 2007
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CastlePoint Holdings made a $7.1 million profit in its first quarter as a public company.
The newcomer has expectations of improving upon that start with hoped for net income of between $9m and $11m for the second quarter of 2007.
The company wrote n...
DATE: May 07, 2007
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Profits increased $4.1 million in the first quarter for Assured Guaranty to $39 million, a 12 percent improvement year-on-year and just above analysts’ expectations.
Favourable credit experience despite the trouble in the US sub-prime market was part...
DATE: May 07, 2007
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A limited survey of how much money was donated to local charities by Bermuda-based companies during the past year has shown that 20 gave a combined total of $18.3 million.
That amount represents only a portion of the total amount given by on-Island c...
DATE: May 07, 2007
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TORONTO(Reuters) - Strong earnings from some of Canada's biggest companies and a spate of merger activity are banishing any thoughts of stock investors adhering to the old saw: "sell in May and go away".There's too much going on. The Toronto Stock Ex...
DATE: May 07, 2007
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Profits more than doubled at Ram Holdings in the first three months of 2007 compared with the same period a year ago.
The company has recognised that its premium writing in the first quarter of last year were “somewhat weak” but even so the improveme...
DATE: May 07, 2007
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Seeing thousands of sharp-suited professionals happily networking away among the hundreds of RIMS exhibits in an immaculate convention centre was enough to create the impression that New Orleans was back to normal.
Just up the road in the French Quar...
DATE: May 07, 2007
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Shares worth $31,555,757 were traded on a record-breaking week for the Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange.
The index hit an all-time record high on Tuesday and then surpassed that mark on Wednesday to reach 5,188.66.
The Wednesday trading was mar...
DATE: May 07, 2007
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A week of events to present 21st century technology to the general public starts today with the Island's first Technology Week, which has been given the shortened moniker of TechWeek by the Ministry of the Environment, Telecommunications and E-Commer...
DATE: May 07, 2007
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