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TAIWAN'S Benq Corp. is a case study in the pitfalls of creating a global brand name, a strategy that many companies based in emerging markets are pursuing.Benq, a consumer-electronics maker based in Taipei, just abandoned a six-year effort to expand ...

Premier Ewart Brown and Finance Minister Paula Cox will join thousands of professionals from Bermuda's and the world's insurance and reinsurance industry at the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) Conference in New Orleans this weekend. Arou...

Government is in the process of collecting information from around 1,500 Island businesses and organisations to monitor economic activity. Questionnaires were mailed out this week by the Department of Statistics, which is gathering data for the annua...

The financial strength of Bermuda-based Tokio Millennium Re has been affirmed as A+ (superior) by rating company AM Best. The issuer credit rating for the company has also been assigned an "aa-". The outlook for both ratings is stable. In a statemen...

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street paused with stocks little changed as strong profit reports from names like Apple Inc. and 3M Corp. failed to galvanise the market a day after the Dow Jones industrials crossed 13,000. Still, a modest advance in the Dow gav...

There's a new kid on the block in Bermuda's casualty and property insurance arena — Lexington Insurance. The company, part of the giant American International Group, has already proven it can step into an established market and carve a sizeable niche...

TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index ended lower as profit-taking in resource shares offset news that Empire Company has bid to take grocery chain Sobeys private in a deal worth about C$1.06 billion.The S&P/TSX composite index ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. reported a 6 percent decline in earnings but beat Wall Street estimates yesterday, helped by the European launch of Coke Zero and raw material costs that rose less than expected.Shares in Coke Enterpris...

The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange edged 4.58 points (0.09 percent) higher to end at 5,115.7 after more than $1 million worth of shares were traded. The only advancing stock was KeyTech which improved by 25 cents (1.6 percent) to 415.55 after...

Bermuda's information technology environment is now the 15th best in the world, ahead of the likes of Japan, Germany and Ireland, in the 2007 survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit. The Island has improved by five places in the listing that measur...