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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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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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Although residential real estate markets have struggled, commercial real estate investments have continued to prosper.Proving an army of doomsayers wrong, real estate mutual funds and real estate investment trusts have outperformed the Standard & Poo...
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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CAMBRIDGE, Massachussetts (AP) — Forget windows, folders and boxes that pop up with text. When students in Thailand, Libya and other developing countries get their $150 computers from the One Laptop Per Child project in 2007, their experience will be...
DATE: Jan 02, 2007
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Weather patterns and ocean currents suggest that we should all brace ourselves for a greater number of intense storms in the future, according to a report on global climate published by Aon Re.
And the report also details experts’ predictions that we...
DATE: Jan 02, 2007
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Belco Holdings Ltd. announced to shareholders last week that its sales of both electricity and gas increased significantly during the first 11 months of 2006, compared to the same period the previous year.
And in the statement to the Bermuda Stock Ex...
DATE: Jan 02, 2007
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WHEN Wall Street returns to work this week, stock investors will be in the mood to buy — that is, if manufacturing and jobs data show modest growth.After the US stock market’s surge in 2006, there may be an inclination to sell some shares and take pr...
DATE: Jan 02, 2007
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MOSCOW (AP) — Belarus and Russia’s natural gas monopoly signed a five-year contract for gas supplies early yesterday, just hours before Russia had threatened to cut off supplies in a price dispute.Under the agreement, Belarus will pay $100 per 1,000 ...
DATE: Jan 02, 2007
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