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MARYVILLE, Tennessee - Even as the proxies were being tallied yesterday on Berkshire Hathaway's $1.7 billion bid for Clayton Homes Inc., shareholders agreed to postpone the vote for two weeks in hopes of getting a better offer.
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DATE: Jul 17, 2003
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index yesterday saw $1.65 million worth of shares trade based primarily on the high volume of shares changing hands at the Bank of N.T. Butterfield. Over the day, the Exchange saw its index fall 7.19 points to...
DATE: Jul 17, 2003
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The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved an ambitious asbestos liability reform bill, but last-minute changes to the measure have drawn fire from insurers.
Amendments made to the Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act - S. 1125 - during the Ju...
DATE: Jul 16, 2003
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The world's largest oil tanker firm, Frontline Ltd., could be put out of business if a legal action to be heard by the Bermuda Supreme Court next week is successful.
Frontline, majority controlled by Norwegian multi-billionaire shipping magnate John ...
DATE: Jul 16, 2003
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State governments already in financial trouble are losing billions of dollars in business taxes nationwide because the money is hidden in corporate tax shelters, according to a new report released Tuesday.
The report states that reincorporating in ha...
DATE: Jul 16, 2003
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange index dipped by 0.07 percent yesterday after the little traded stock Watlington Waterworks lost 27.3 percent of its value.
The water company, which supplies piped water to parts of the Island, lost $1.50 to cl...
DATE: Jul 16, 2003
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Brokerage opens Bermuda operation
London-based brokerage Miller Insurance Services Ltd. has opened an operation in Bermuda.
Miller Bermuda Ltd. will place business in the Bermuda market on behalf of Miller clients, the company said in a statement.
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DATE: Jul 16, 2003
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KNOXVILLE, Tennessee - A month after Warren Buffett received a copy of mobile home magnate Jim Clayton's self-published memoir, the billionaire investor's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. made a $1.7 billion offer for Clayton Homes Inc.
But some shareholders ...
DATE: Jul 16, 2003
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Accenture Ltd., the world's largest consulting firm, yesterday said quarterly earnings rose 15 percent as lower tax rates and a weak U.S. dollar offset a shift to lower-margin back-office operations.
Officials of the Bermuda-base...
DATE: Jul 16, 2003
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Companies that have moved their headquarters out of the United States to avoid paying their taxes received nearly $1.5 billion in contracts from the federal government in 2002, Rep. Richard Neal said on Monday.
Congressman Neal has been trying to rev...
DATE: Jul 16, 2003
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