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When I was in college, the campus Marxist shared a workspace — and community refrigerator — with several of his more free-market-minded colleagues. On opening the fridge for his half-and-half one morning, a professor of logic chuckled to see a note a...
DATE: Jan 13, 2007
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WHAT is it about the relationship around money? Is it control? Is it different temperaments? Is it for shoring up a fragile ego? Or is it complete indifference to what money can do for you? Ever watch a couple shopping? The body language is fascinati...
DATE: Jan 13, 2007
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index closed unchanged following light trading yesterday.
The only issue to see activity was Argus Group Holdings Ltd, which remained unchanged on $14 after 500 shares were traded.
Over the week, the Index saw...
DATE: Jan 12, 2007
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GULFPORT, Mississippi (AP) — A jury awarded $2.5 million in punitive damages against State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. for a Mississippi couple for denying their Hurricane Katrina claim. The decision could benefit hundreds of other homeowners challeng...
DATE: Jan 12, 2007
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LONDON (Reuters) — British interest rates hit their highest level in nearly six years yesterday after the Bank of England stunned markets by raising interest rates to 5.25 percent, the third quarter-point hike since August.Wrong-footed analysts immed...
DATE: Jan 12, 2007
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Marsh & McLennan Cos., the world’s largest insurance broker, has formed a Bermuda-based venture with investors to bring as much as $1 billion in new insurance coverage to clients in disaster-prone areas in the next year.
MaRI Ltd., created with inves...
DATE: Jan 12, 2007
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Small-scale importers will no longer be allowed to unload partly loaded and shared containers on Hamilton docks, the Corporation of Hamilton announced yesterday.
Currently, LCLs (less than container loads) are being stripped — or unloaded — in number...
DATE: Jan 12, 2007
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Telecommunications entrepreneurs Michael Leverock and Kurt Eve yesterday announced that their company CellularOne had bought out Hardell Cable TV Ltd.
Mr. Leverock, CellularOne’s chief operating officer, said the main attraction of the acquisition wa...
DATE: Jan 12, 2007
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) Index rose for a second day as two banks gained.
Bermuda Commercial Bank Ltd. (BCB) saw its share price climb by 50 cents (5.9 percent) to $9 as 10,000 of its shares traded.
And 401 Butterfield Bank Ltd....
DATE: Jan 12, 2007
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Bermuda could have the newly unveiled iPhone in stock as early as June.
A spokesperson for the iStore on Reid Street said that one of the owners of the company was on hand for the unveiling of the new gadget at the Macworld conference in San Francisc...
DATE: Jan 12, 2007
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