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XL Capital Ltd. and Axis Capital Ltd. became the latest Bermuda reinsurers to announce estimated losses of tens of millions of dollars in claims resulting from European storm Kyrill.
XL estimated its pre-tax losses due to Kyrill to be in the range of...
DATE: Feb 05, 2007
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Famous for his contraire approach to investments and looking in the opposite direction to “the herd” for money-making investment opportunities, Swiss-born Dr. Marc Faber delivered his brand of wisdom to an audience of money managers during a stop-off...
DATE: Feb 05, 2007
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The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) Index climbed just over one percentage point last week to break through the 5,000-point barrier.
Driving those gains was the Bermuda Commercial Bank (BCB), whose share price rose 25.63 percent ($2.55) ...
DATE: Feb 05, 2007
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Accenture Ltd. is going Indian.
The Bermuda-based consulting firm last week said it would supplement the 27,000 workers it already has in India by hiring an additional 8,000 people there by August 31.
India will soon be Accenture’s biggest employee b...
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Bermuda-based White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd. reported a net income of $673 million for 2006 — more than double the 2005 figure.
Net income for the quarter was $299 million, compared to $33 million for the fourth quarter of 2005.
Those results r...
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The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) Index climbed just over one percentage point last week to break through the 5,000-point barrier.
Driving those gains was the Bermuda Commercial Bank (BCB), whose share price rose 25.63 percent ($2.55) ...
DATE: Feb 05, 2007
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CHICAGO (Bloomberg) — Shares of Bermuda company Nabors Industries Ltd., the world’s largest onshore oil and natural-gas driller, had the largest gain in almost four months on speculation the company may be a buyout target, energy analyst Dan Pickerin...
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he global economy is chugging along nicely, helped, in no small measure, by a significant decline in oil prices since it peaked in August. This has helped to reduce expectations of higher inflation and the perceived need for central-bank tightening. ...
DATE: Feb 05, 2007
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) — If the multi-year metals party is in jeopardy, you wouldn’t know it from the optimism of 6,000 explorers and miners gathered here to discuss prices and geology.The mood was decidedly upbeat at the annual Minera...
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Bermuda-based White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd. reported a net income of $673 million for 2006 ? more than double the 2005 figure.
Net income for the quarter was $299 million, compared to $33 million for the fourth quarter of 2005.
Those results r...
DATE: Feb 05, 2007
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