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Behind the millions the Thyssen-Bornemiszas spent on a Bermuda court battle over their inheritance, is the story of a dysfunctional family, whose wealth and art collection have deep connections to a Nazi past.
This past forms part of the revelations ...
DATE: Apr 19, 2007
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NEW YORK (Reuters) — Allstate Corp. said yesterday that net income rose 5 percent in the first quarter, helped by a boost in auto policies, and announced a new $1 billion share buyback.Allstate, the largest publicly traded car and home insurer in the...
DATE: Apr 19, 2007
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In the year that Dr. James King became a director of the Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Ltd., Jimmy Carter was the US President, the film “Grease” was released and Canadian pop star Nelly Furtado was born.
Yesterday, at the Bank’s annual general meet...
DATE: Apr 19, 2007
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CHICAGO (Reuters) — AMR Corp., parent of No. 1 US air carrier American Airlines, swung to an $81 million profit yesterday from a year-ago loss as it filled more seats on planes, charged higher fares and paid less for fuel.AMR, whose shares rose more ...
DATE: Apr 19, 2007
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Butterfield Bank Ltd. was the only issue to advance on The Royal Gazette Bermuda Stock Exchange Index yesterday.
The Bank gained 25 cents (0.4 percent) to close on $59.25 after 2,641 shares traded.
The BSX Index gained 13.32 points (0.26 percent) to ...
DATE: Apr 18, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street traded mostly higher yesterday, briefly pushing the Dow Jones industrials into record territory after a rise in home construction and a mild reading on consumer inflation encouraged investors to buy.The technology-dominate...
DATE: Apr 18, 2007
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LONDON (AP) — The last time the British pound was worth more than $2, the elder George Bush was waging a losing US presidential campaign against Bill Clinton and the Eurotunnel linking Britain to Europe was still under construction.It took almost 15 ...
DATE: Apr 18, 2007
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Apax Partners Worldwide LLP and Permira Advisers LLP are considering a sale of Bermuda-based Intelsat Ltd., the world’s biggest commercial-satellite operator, for as much as $6 billion, two people familiar with the talks said.Cre...
DATE: Apr 18, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Until a few weeks ago, I thought I was well-connected. I text message and IM friends at a dizzying pace. I keep up with four social-networking sites daily, check e-mail obsessively and even blog when the mood hits me.But then, around ...
DATE: Apr 18, 2007
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BOSTON (AP) — First-quarter earnings at International Business Machines Corp. rose 8 percent and matched Wall Street expectations yesterday, as a boost from software acquisitions helped overcome moderate overall growth.In the first three months of th...
DATE: Apr 18, 2007
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