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Conyers Dill & Pearman has strengthened its trust and private client practice in Bermuda with the appointment of Brigit Morrison as associate.
Ms Morrison's expertise includes all aspects of trust law practice from initial consultation through to imp...
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Empowering women in business, understanding who they are, what they want to be and how they will achieve it — despite the challenges they face — will be the focus for a three-day summit held at the Fairmont Southampton hotel in September.
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Warren Buffett's option to buy shares of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., part of an agreement reached at the depths of the credit crisis, has earned a profit on paper of about $2 billion, a return of more than 40 percent.
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) - Canadian stocks rose, lifting the main equity index to a six-week high, after the central bank said the country's recession is ending and companies including EnCana Corp. beat second-quarter earnings estimates.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British retail sales jumped at three times the rate analysts expected last month as hot weather and early summer discounting boosted sales of clothes, official data showed yesterday.
Separate figures from the British Bankers Associ...
DATE: Jul 24, 2009
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new york (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based insurer Arch Capital Group Ltd. said profit fell for the seventh straight quarter on investment losses and a decline in premium revenue amid the global recession.
Second-quarter net income dropped 20 percent to $1...
DATE: Jul 24, 2009
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DEARBORN, Michigan (AP) — Helped by a lightened debt load, Ford Motor Co. posted a surprise second-quarter profit of $2.3 billion yesterday, following the worst loss in company history a year earlier. Shares rose 10 percent in afternoon trading.
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DATE: Jul 24, 2009
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NEW YORK (AP) - Investors celebrated news of another jump in home sales by propelling the Dow Jones industrials to their first close above 9,000 since January.
Better-than-expected profits at some of the nation's biggest companies also lifted the mar...
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ATLANTA (AP) — Consumers are sending fewer, lighter packages, businesses are urgently trying to spend less on shipping orders, and it all spells bad news for UPS Inc.
The economic bellwether said yesterday its second-quarter profit plunged 49 percent...
DATE: Jul 24, 2009
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Butterfield Bank's common shares bounced back after a series of falls over the past few weeks on The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) yesterday.
The shares rose 30 cents (7.1 percent) to $4.50, with 100 shares traded.
Meanwhile, the bank also saw 202 pre...
DATE: Jul 24, 2009
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