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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks had their biggest decline in two months as commodity producers including EnCana Corp. and Teck Cominco Ltd. dropped along with crude oil and copper prices, on concern that demand for resources will cool.The Stand...
DATE: Jan 04, 2007
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LAST week’s column on technology forecasts for 2007 netted some reader replies, including one from Steven, who sent me to a security group’s “fear list” of predictions. A panel of them got together to pick out the what they belive are the ten top sec...
DATE: Jan 03, 2007
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ALBANY, New York (AP) — MetLife Inc., the largest US group life insurer, will pay $19 million and change some of its business practices to end an investigation of payments made to brokers to steer clients its way, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said....
DATE: Jan 03, 2007
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Insurance broker Willis Group Holdings Ltd. said yesterday that its annual review of reinsurance found that rates for property and casualty exposures were flat or falling, suggesting that prices will hold in most business and consumer insurance polic...
DATE: Jan 03, 2007
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Bermuda is set to get a new submarine telecommunications cable aimed at encouraging competition and increasing data-carrying capacity.
The Ministry of Telecommunications and E-Commerce (METEC) has written to 23 companies inviting them to apply for a ...
DATE: Jan 03, 2007
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) — For most people, it’s back to work this week after a holiday weekend with family and friends. And for many, a new study shows, it will be under a bad boss.Nearly two of five bosses don’t keep their word and more than a fou...
DATE: Jan 03, 2007
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LAST week's column on technology forecasts for 2007 netted some reader replies, including one from Steven, who sent me to a security group's "fear list" of predictions. A panel of them got together to pick out the what they belive are the ten top sec...
DATE: Jan 03, 2007
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Ahmed Elamin
HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) — The St. Paul Travelers insurance company has agreed to stop paying “contingent commissions” to brokers and agents to steer business to insurance companies, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said yesterday.In...
DATE: Jan 03, 2007
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BEERSHEBA, Israel (Reuters) — An Israeli firm has designed a security system to ensure jailbreakers or intruders find a guard dog’s bark can indeed be worse than its bite.Harnessing technology that interprets barking — to see if an animal is respondi...
DATE: Jan 03, 2007
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange closed slightly up after the first of trading in 2007 yesterday.
Just one stock changed value and that was Argus Holdings Ltd. which climbed 25 cents (1.8 percent) to close at $14, after 200 of its shares trad...
DATE: Jan 03, 2007
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