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H. Davidson and Co. is to cease trading on May 1 after nearly 40 years in business — but its dive shop and some of its wholesale unit will remain in operation under new ownership.
The Thistle Gallery, on Park Street, Hamilton, an antique and collecti...
DATE: Feb 20, 2009
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ST. JOHN'S, Antigua (Reuters) - C.A.S. Hewlett & Co, the small Antiguan firm that Texas billionaire Allen Stanford identified as the auditors of his offshore bank, said yesterday it had no information about ties to the tycoon accused of fraud.
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RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.'s board of directors voted to raise its quarterly dividend for the 14th successive year.
The company, which was founded in 1993 to help fill the heightened demand for property-catastrophe reinsurance following the devastat...
DATE: Feb 20, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Higher federal and state taxes on cigarettes this year may bring the biggest drop in smoking ever, reducing the tobacco industry's annual payments to states by as much as $500 million and threatening the repayment of $37 billio...
DATE: Feb 20, 2009
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The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) index remained unchanged yesterday, stopping the rot after seven previous days of falls.
No domestic listed companies changed value as the index stayed rooted on 2,900.81.
The most heavily traded stock...
DATE: Feb 20, 2009
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index managed to eke out a small gain yesterday as energy issues strengthened on higher oil prices, managing to offset weaker gold miners, which retreated along with the price of gold.
The heavily weighted ene...
DATE: Feb 20, 2009
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PLATINUM Q4
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Net income: $64.1 million compared to $102.2 million in 2007.
Combined ratio: 97.7 percent compared to 75.3 percent in 2007.
Net premiums written: $237.3 million compared to $241 million in 2007.
Platinum Underwriters Holdings...
DATE: Feb 19, 2009
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NEW YORK (AP) — MBIA Inc. said yesterday it will separate its municipal bond insurance business from the riskier operations that sent the company's finances into turmoil.
MBIA, which came under pressure in 2008 because it had insured mortgage-backed ...
DATE: Feb 19, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - Bermuda-based Global Crossing Ltd., the Internet-based telecommunications company that's grown through three acquisitions since 2006, plans to hold on to its cash "for the time being", chief executive officer John Legere said.
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DATE: Feb 19, 2009
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new york (Bloomberg) — Travis Yates, an Australian developer of applications for Apple Inc.'s iPhone, is finding there's no such thing as bad publicity.
After Nevada's Gaming Control Board sent a memo this month to casinos warning them of Yates's Bla...
DATE: Feb 19, 2009
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