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Insurance companies' profits have dropped sharply and tens of billions of dollars have been wiped off their balance sheets, but insurers continue to renew commercial property and casualty insurance programmes at deeply depressed rates, according to t...
DATE: Oct 08, 2009
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A survey by Intel of its employees has brought us back to the question of whether or when to deploy Windows 7, Microsoft's new replacement operating system (OS) to Vista. Intel might be described as a biased party; after all it wants to sell the high...
DATE: Oct 07, 2009
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The impact of the credit crunch on insurance claims and recent developments in the wake of the Madoff Ponzi scheme fraud will be among some of the key talking points at an insurance seminar held at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute today.
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DATE: Oct 07, 2009
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) - Canadian stocks rose for a second day as commodity producers rallied after an interest rate increase in Australia weakened the US dollar and lifted the prices of fuel and raw materials.
Goldcorp Inc., Canada's second-largest bul...
DATE: Oct 07, 2009
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Axis Capital Holdings Ltd. has announced the launch of a new global division to provide accident and health re/insurance coverage.
Christopher DiSipio was appointed chief executive officer of the newly-formed Axis Global Accident & Health division in...
DATE: Oct 07, 2009
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Sustainable economic growth and low interest rates worldwide will spur a "multi-year" bull market in equities, led by developing nations, said Fidelity International's Anthony Bolton.
"Low growth means low interest rates, and act...
DATE: Oct 07, 2009
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Businesses will be able to register in Bermuda online more quickly and easily thanks to a new automated e-filing and e-approval system launched by the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA).
The new system, which was unveiled by the BMA yesterday, will upg...
DATE: Oct 07, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - Verizon Wireless, the largest US mobile-phone company, will start selling handsets based on Google Inc.'s Android operating system, aiming to challenge AT&T Inc.'s iPhone.
Google and Verizon Wireless will develop several Androi...
DATE: Oct 07, 2009
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Bermuda-based Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. has sold the Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans, the company announced yesterday.
The company sold the property to The Berger Company, Inc. for $44.25 million.
Orient-Express president and chief executive offi...
DATE: Oct 07, 2009
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Bermuda-based corporate credit manager Primus Guaranty said one of its subsidiaries had paid $6.5 million to terminate a major portfolio of credi-default swaps.
The deal between Primus Financial Products and "a significant counterparty", who was not ...
DATE: Oct 07, 2009
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