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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks retreated from a record as commodity producers such as Petro-Canada and Teck Cominco Ltd. tumbled with oil and metals prices.Disappointing earnings reports from BCE Inc., Canada’s largest telephone company, and C...
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Market research company Research.bm has expanded its staff with two new appointments.
Pippa Knap has joined as a research associate and Jecoa Tucker as office assistant.
For 15 years Ms Knap worked as director of communications for an integrated mark...
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Former UK senior crown prosecutor Rod Michelmore, who has been employed in the litigation department of barristers and attorney?s Marshall Diel and Myers since July 2002, has been invited to be a partner in the firm.
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Bermuda Commercial Bank Warrants shares jumped 65 cents (65 percent) as 10,000 were traded on the Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange yesterday on a day that saw five separate stocks moving upwards to leave the Exchange 45.81 points (0.92 percent)...
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Net income rose to $148 million, or 94 cents a share, from $55 million, or 35 cents, a year earlier, London-based Willis said in a statement yesterday. The profit includes ?the resolution of prior-year tax matters,? Willis said.
Willis chief executiv...
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Bank accounts in Dubai linked with Bermuda-based oil trader John Deuss’ First Cura|0xe7|ao International Bank have been frozen as part of an ongoing operation by British and Dutch authorities to end an alleged complex cross-border fraud scheme and re...
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Scott Neil
Small construction outfits are to be given help, guidance and support to improve their ability to compete in the Island’s current booming construction sector.
A year in the planning, Bermuda’s “small business construction incubator” has now gone live...
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Five months of falling inflation ended in December when the annual rise in the cost of living climbed to 3.4 percent.
Figures released by Government yesterday, showed the figure jumped from November’s 2.6 percent rate.
Rent was the biggest contributo...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Willis Group Holdings Ltd., the world’s third-largest insurance broker, said fourth-quarter profit more than doubled on a $71 million tax credit.Net income rose to $148 million, or 94 cents a share, from $55 million, or 35 cent...
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Former UK senior crown prosecutor Rod Michelmore, who has been employed in the litigation department of barristers and attorney’s Marshall Diel and Myers since July 2002, has been invited to be a partner in the firm.
South African-born Mr. Michelmore...
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