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LONDON - Britain's top share index rose for a ninth straight day as investors cheered positive economic data from both the UK and the US, with miners and banks enjoying an afternoon rally after falls the previous session. The FTSE 100 index rose 66.0...
DATE: Jul 24, 2009
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LONDON (AP) — Britain will invest £1.1 billion ($1.8 billion) to expand its electrified rail network, taking the overhead lines into Wales for the first time, the government said yesterday.
The project will pay for itself because electrified lines us...
DATE: Jul 24, 2009
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IPC Holdings Ltd. boosted its profits by more than $125 million for the second quarter of 2009 - achieving one of the best results in the company's history - due to better pricing, an absence of big catastrophes and a turnaround in the equity and deb...
DATE: Jul 24, 2009
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - For most financial market professionals in this city and other hubs across Asia, the days of extravagant expatriate life have ended. For now at least.
The standard HK$200,000 per month ($25,641) housing allowance for top bankers...
DATE: Jul 24, 2009
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The Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists will offer its internationally recognised CAMS Certification examination and preparation seminar in Bermuda two days before the Association of Bermuda Compliance Officers (ABCO) Bermuda C...
DATE: Jul 24, 2009
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Bermuda-based Nephila Capital has raised $800 million in the second quarter of this year from institutional investors targeting catastrophe reinsurance funds.
Greg Hagood, the fund's co-founder, told the Financial Standard that pension funds, hedge f...
DATE: Jul 24, 2009
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Electrical products and tool maker Cooper Industries Ltd. reported a 45 percent drop in quarterly profit yesterday that still beat Wall Street forecasts, and said cost cuts supported profit even as sales came in at the low end of...
DATE: Jul 24, 2009
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Like most sectors of the financial world, hedge funds have taken a beating in the past 18 months. Pangea Capital, the investment management company run by Nicholas Swan - son of Sir John and one of Hamilton's newest common councillors - and Attila Ko...
DATE: Jul 24, 2009
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Just over half of respondents in a poll of readers of the industry magazine Reactions believe that Bermuda is still the place for new insurers to go with start-up capital.
While the Island has attracted the vast majority of start-ups and their capita...
DATE: Jul 24, 2009
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Bermuda-based First Atlantic Commerce (FAC) and Scotiabank have joined forces to offer 3-D Secure services to online merchants in seven countries across the English-speaking countries in the Caribbean.
Through this partnership, Internet merchants in ...
DATE: Jul 24, 2009
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