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The value of LOM (Holdings) Ltd. shares dropped by more than 40 percent yesterday, driving the Bermuda Stock Exchange Index down 25.20 points.
LOM, which has been engaged in a lengthy legal dispute with US regulator the Securities and Exchange Commis...
DATE: Mar 30, 2006
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LONDON (Reuters) ? The body overseeing a massive computer systems upgrade for Britain's National Health Service yesterday called for heads to roll at Accenture, one of the firms in charge, after it announced problems with the project.
Accenture is on...
DATE: Mar 30, 2006
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) ? Canada?s Standard & Poor?s/TSX Composite Index may retreat about 25 percent from an all-time high in the next year as oil and metal prices slide, according to Hans Black, chairman of Interinvest Global Management.
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DATE: Mar 30, 2006
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Strengthening US and global economic conditions indicate an optimistic outlook for 2006, according to Vanguard economist Joseph Davis Ph.D.
Mr. Davis supports Vanguard's Investment Counselling and Research and Fixed Income Groups and he presented his...
DATE: Mar 29, 2006
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VIENNA, Austria (AP) ? Vienna?s public prosecutor issued arrest warrants yesterday for Phillip Bennett, the former head of the troubled New York commodities brokerage Refco Inc., and the son of a former president of the bank that lent Bennett hundred...
DATE: Mar 29, 2006
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EDINBURGH (Reuters) ? Well-heeled tourists, eager to rediscover the romance of an earlier era, are taking to the rails in increasing numbers on board trains with names that evoke the age of luxury travel.
The dark blue and gold coaches of the Venice ...
DATE: Mar 29, 2006
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Having seen Linux slowly eat away at its server market, Microsoft has struck back by attempting to show why Windows still matters to businesses.
The company has published figures from IDC Research showing that on a unit basis, Windows Server is the m...
DATE: Mar 29, 2006
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Ahmed Elamin
Investors who entered the insurance market to take advantage of anticipated rate increases following last year?s hurricanes must diversify or face significant losses in the 2006 hurricane season.
?With an active hurricane season forecast for 2006, in...
DATE: Mar 29, 2006
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NEW YORK (AP) Shares of luxury hotel company Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. rose yesterday after an analyst said Wall Street is underestimating the earnings potential of Orient?s real estate projects.
The Bermuda-based company?s shares rose $2.13, or 5....
DATE: Mar 29, 2006
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More than a decade ago Austrian businessman Wolfgang Flottl was busy presiding over a Bermuda-based trading empire. Today authorities in his home country are contemplating issuing an arrest warrant for the financier, as they scrutinise if high-risk t...
DATE: Mar 29, 2006
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