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Three-quarters of the Bermuda staff of XL Capital Ltd. took a day off their normal jobs yesterday to donate their time and effort to some community projects.
Their efforts were part of the business insurer's fourth annual Global Day of Giving, which ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The problem with rising expectations is that it gets tougher to beat them.
Investors broke the stock market's four-day rally and sold off after US data on the services industry and factory orders came in below forecasts. Factory order...
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CHICAGO (Bloomberg) — Aon Corp., the world's largest insurance brokerage, will replace American International Group Inc. as jersey sponsor of English league champions Manchester United from June 2010.
Chicago-based Aon, which has offices in Bermuda, ...
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SEATTLE (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. chief executive officer Steven Ballmer said the world's largest software company would move some employees offshore if Congress enacts President Barack Obama's plans to impose higher taxes on US companies' foreig...
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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) — The embattled insurer American International Group Inc. is selling its headquarters building in New York and a nearby building in a deal expected to close at the end of this summer, a person familiar with the matter s...
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Ace Ltd. announced yesterday that its subsidiary Ace INA Holdings Inc. plans to sell $500 million of 5.9 percent 10-year notes.
The notes will be guaranteed by Ace Ltd. and will be used for refinancing upcoming debt maturities and general corporate p...
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Amlin Plc, the biggest insurer in the Lloyd's of London market, will buy Fortis Corporate Insurance NV for 350 million euros ($500 million) in its largest acquisition as it seeks to expand in areas not related to catastrophe cove...
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Proxy advisory firm RiskMetrics Group is recommending that IPC Holdings Ltd. shareholders vote against a merger with fellow Bermuda company Max Capital Group Ltd. next week.
And RiskMetrics believes that an offer by another Bermuda insurance company,...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said yesterday the US dollar did not face a near-term risk of losing its reserve currency status and that ensuring a strong US economy was the best way to keep the dollar strong. "I don't s...
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A Madison investment initiative, Phoenix has been responsible for many of South Africa's most innovative and successful property transactions behind it. It takes an impeccably-timed venture, with an exceptional executive team, to leverage opportuniti...
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