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Here is the test. If you had five minutes to pack the most important things in your life with you, what would they be? Here is a second question. Do you even know where all those important things are?
The recent episode with the Somerset tsunami shou...
DATE: Dec 23, 2006
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f the 50 or so columns that appear in this space each year, this is the most difficult one to write. The Christmas break is hard upon us, and everyone in Bermuda has spent themselves into near-bankruptcy and has no interest in being made to feel guil...
DATE: Dec 23, 2006
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Shares of Accenture Ltd. , the number two consulting firm, jumped 4.5 percent yesterday after it reported quarterly results that beat Wall Street expectations and raised its 2007 profit forecast.
At one point they had risen they were up by eight perc...
DATE: Dec 22, 2006
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WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — The US government extended the hourly flight restrictions at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, a victory for the largest airlines there.The limit of 75 flights each hour will stay in place indefinitely instead of expiring on Janu...
DATE: Dec 22, 2006
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WASHINGTON (Dow Jones/AP) — The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday charged two former executives of Bermuda conglomerate Tyco International Ltd. executives in connection with frauds that inflated the company’s operating income by hundreds o...
DATE: Dec 22, 2006
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BOSTON (AP) — Fidelity Investments announced yesterday that it will repay more than $40 million to funds affected by allegations that its traders improperly steered business to brokerage firms that gave them travel, entertainment, gifts and gratuitie...
DATE: Dec 22, 2006
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The US economy grew at a tepid two percent annual rate in the third quarter, slowed by the sharpest slump in housing in more than 15 years, while mid-Atlantic business activity stumbled in December, data showed yesterday.The gr...
DATE: Dec 22, 2006
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Ratings agency A.M. Best has predicted that Bermuda insurer Amlin Bermuda Ltd. (ABL) will make a profit of $186 million in 2006 and $255 million next year.
The ratings agency anticipates an outstanding loss ratio of approximately 40 percent for 2006 ...
DATE: Dec 22, 2006
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Carnival Corp., the world’s largest cruise operator, said fourth-quarter profit rose 24 percent, beating its forecast, on demand for European trips.Net income for the three months ended November 30 climbed to $416 million, or 5...
DATE: Dec 22, 2006
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Bermuda’s insurance market is described as being “long on capital and short on talent” in a report by analysts Stifel Nicolaus.
The term is used to summarise opinions voiced to Stifel Nocolaus researchers during a round of interviews with insurance a...
DATE: Dec 22, 2006
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