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Bermuda will remain a key player in the insurance industry - but companies based on the Island could seek to access accounts and clients in emerging markets.
That is the view of a report by Standard & Poor's Corp. (S&P) published last week, which rev...
DATE: Apr 15, 2009
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The level of dangers facing Internet users continues to rise, despite all of the precautions and beefed up security measures we have had to take over the past few years, according to Symantec's annual Internet Security Threat Report.
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DATE: Apr 15, 2009
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — UK loans for house purchase increased four percent in February from the previous month, the Council of Mortgage Lenders said.
Banks and building societies granted 24,300 loans in the month, down 47 percent from February 2008, the...
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:Bermuda still has a big part to play in the IT industry - despite many such jobs being outsourced over the past few years.
That is according to Terry Lister, Minister of Energy, Telecommunications and E-Commerce, who was speaking about the state of ...
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The Ace Group of Companies has sold off the long-term care insurance business of Combined Insurance Company of America to MedAmerica in a $70 million deal.
Ace, which moved its holding company to Switzerland last year and retains its principal execut...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street shifted into reverse yesterday after a surprisingly weak retail sales report punctured the market's optimism about the economy.
The poor sales data, combined with a sharp drop in wholesale prices, overshadowed better-than-...
DATE: Apr 15, 2009
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Hi, my name is Deborah Yao, and I am an iPhone applications addict.
I didn't see it coming. I bought the iPhone because it is the Swiss Army knife of gadgets - a video iPod, phone and web browser and more. But then I discovered wh...
DATE: Apr 15, 2009
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — The UK economy, shrinking at the fastest pace since 1980, is being hardest hit in the major cities north of London, according to analysis of employment data by the Work Foundation.
The number of people claiming allowances for job...
DATE: Apr 15, 2009
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More US chief executives got pay raises than had their pay cut in 2008, a year when billions in taxpayer dollars went to prop up struggling companies and millions of workers lost jobs, according to an AFL-CIO survey released ye...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Goldman Sachs Group Inc., buoyed by better-than-expected earnings and a 54 percent gain in its stock price, raised $5 billion in a share sale to help repay $10 billion in government rescue funds.
The bank said yesterday it sold...
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