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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street stumbled lower yesterday as growing concerns over technology companies led jittery investors to pull money out of the market ahead of this week’s earnings reports.The market has been vulnerable to erratic trading lately, w...
DATE: Jan 23, 2007
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LONDON (Reuters) - When you’re a London banker with more than a million dollars in bonus money to burn, the yachts, James Bond cars and luxury homes are yours for the taking.Britain’s financial elite are prowling penthouses, visiting exclusive shops ...
DATE: Jan 23, 2007
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The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) Index dropped slightly yesterday, pulled down by falling Bermuda Commercial Bank Ltd. (BCB) stock.
BCB was the only issue to change value, losing 25 cents (2.6 percent) to close on $9.50 as 13,200 shar...
DATE: Jan 23, 2007
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Shares of some Bermuda reinsurance companies slipped yesterday as a catastrophe modelling company predicted insured losses could be as high as $10 billion from the storm which caused widespread damage in Europe last week.
RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. ...
DATE: Jan 23, 2007
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc. said yesterday it plans to cut 7,800 more jobs, including over 20 percent of its European sales force, in an effort to save up to an additional $1 billion by the end of 2008 and ensure profit growth despite flat reven...
DATE: Jan 23, 2007
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Chronic delays in the processing of planning applications and building permits is starting to impact Bermuda?s economy and is one reason why some big projects are trying to short-cut the system by asking for controversial Special Development Orders (...
DATE: Jan 23, 2007
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) — The Florida Legislature yesterday overwhelmingly passed a bill members hope will lower the state’s skyrocketing property insurance rates and sent the measure to Gov. Charlie Crist, who said he would likely sign the bill th...
DATE: Jan 23, 2007
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PARIS (Bloomberg) — Areva SA, the world’s biggest maker of nuclear reactors, offered almost 600 million euros ($777 million) to buy wind-turbine supplier Repower Systems AG and tap rising demand for energy sources cleaner than fossil fuels.The cash b...
DATE: Jan 23, 2007
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Chronic delays in the processing of planning applications and building permits is starting to impact Bermuda’s economy and is one reason why some big projects are trying to short-cut the system by asking for controversial Special Development Orders (...
DATE: Jan 23, 2007
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Bermuda-based White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd. renamed Ray Barrette as chief executive officer, replacing Steve Fass, the man who succeeded him in 2005. Mr. Barrette will also assume the role of chairman from Jack Byrne, who is leaving that post ...
DATE: Jan 23, 2007
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