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Heading-off potential trouble for Bermuda?s booming international business sector is the mission of Finance Minister Paula Cox as she meets a second powerful US congressmen in as many days today.
And Bermuda appears to have a strong chance of maintai...
DATE: Dec 05, 2006
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index had a moribund yesterday, with no shares changing hands.
The Index was unchanged at 4,833.86.
DATE: Dec 05, 2006
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks extended a record for a fourth day, led by financial shares including Royal Bank of Canada, on optimism banks' earnings will weather an economic slowdown in the US, Canada's biggest trading partner."We continue t...
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Shares of Griffin Mining Ltd. rose as much as 13 percent after the company announced plans to spend $7.1 million to expand its Caijiaying metals-processing plant in China.The expansion will increase annual capacity to 750,000 met...
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When investors think of growth stocks, they often think of companies that tout a medical cure or knock-out technology.
They could profit handsomely by suspending their disbelief and thinking of giant, Paris insurance company AXA SA. Already the world...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Pfizer Inc.’s shares fell as much as 15.7 percent after the world’s biggest drugmaker ended development of its most important new treatment, a cholesterol medicine designed to replace Lipitor when its patent expires.Pfizer ende...
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Heading off potential trouble for Bermuda’s booming international business sector is the mission of Finance Minister Paula Cox as she meets with two powerful US Congressmen this week.
She is in Washington, DC for top level talks with members of Ameri...
DATE: Dec 05, 2006
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Bermuda-based catastrophe reinsurer IPC Holdings Ltd. has had its A financial strength rating affirmed by ratings agency AM Best.
The rating applies to IPC's Bermudian and Irish reinsurance subsidiaries and to its debt ratings and preferred stock. Th...
DATE: Dec 05, 2006
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ZURICH (Reuters) — Swiss Re said yesterday it expected to conclude exclusive talks on the sale to an unidentified buyer of its "Gherkin" tower in London's traditional financial district by early next year.A statement by the Swiss company said it had ...
DATE: Dec 05, 2006
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A young professional Bermudian is about to embark on a three-year job placement working in the insurance industry in London.
It will be Raymond Tannock, Jr.’s first time living in the UK and he is taking his eight-year-old daughter Treasure with him ...
DATE: Dec 04, 2006
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