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OSLO (Reuters) — Bermuda-based oilfield services firm Seadrill has agreed to sell its West Prospero rig to shipowner Ship Finance International for $210 million and to lease it back for 15 years.“Seadrill has under the arrangement several options to ...
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Continental, the fourth-largest US carrier, changed its fares yesterday, spokeswoman Mary Clark said. US Airways matched prices with United, AMR Corp.?s American Airlines, Delta Air Lines Inc. and Northwest Airlines Corp., although not in every marke...
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The news that Bermuda has the highest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in the world should be seen as another danger sign of an overheating economy.
That is the view of economist and United Bermuda Party Senator E.T. (Bob) Richards, who said t...
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As a new US Congress convened this past week, the focus was on the Democrats. It's the first change in power since the 1994 Republican revolution, and there are captivating new powerbrokers, led by the much celebrated first woman speaker of the House...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Defying the national housing slump, property values in New York City rose 19 percent last year, double the gain in 2005, according to the city's finance department.The biggest increases were in the Bronx and Brooklyn, where property v...
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WASHINGTON (Dow Jones/AP) — Bermuda company CastlePoint Holdings Ltd., which provides products to insurance companies, has filed for an initial public offering.The company didn’t disclose how many shares will be offered, nor did it provide an estimat...
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OSLO (Reuters) ? Bermuda-based oilfield services firm Seadrill has agreed to sell its West Prospero rig to shipowner Ship Finance International for $210 million and to lease it back for 15 years.
?Seadrill has under the arrangement several options to...
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? The chairman of Lloyd?s, the world?s biggest insurance market, warned on Friday of $100 billion natural disasters in the United States and urged a ?radical rethink? of public policy in response to global warming.
At the same time, L...
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The company didn?t disclose how many shares will be offered, nor did it provide an estimated price range for the offering, but it said the offering could be up to $50 million in common shares.
CastlePoint is a Hamilton-based holding company organised...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street’s fixation on economic data turns into a craving for profit news and forecasts this week as a slew of corporate earnings reports arrive.Investors will receive their first big batch of reports from the final quarter of 2006...
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