49296 results returned for search: "" category ("Other" AND "Business")
CLOSE THE UNEMPLOYMENT GAP: Unemployment is rising as businesses and the public sector try to cut costs. It's a tough job market — and for those who have been out of work for half a year or longer, it can be even rougher.
"If somebody wasn't doing an...
DATE: Dec 09, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A group in the US working for state insurance regulators has green-lighted several proposals submitted by the life-insurance industry in recent weeks aimed at lowering insurers' capital and reserve requirements, the Wall Street J...
DATE: Dec 09, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Bermuda-based XL Capital Ltd. stands to increase its share of the growing Brazilian reinsurance market, after receiving regulatory approval to operate as a local reinsurer, incorporated in Brazil and regulated by Brazilian authorities.
In June, XL Re...
DATE: Dec 09, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Stocks tumbled on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) yesterday with the utilities and banking sectors hit hardest.
Belco Holdings Ltd. fell 25 cents (1.53 percent) to $16 with 400 shares traded, while Butterfield Bank was down 15 cents (1...
DATE: Dec 09, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich yesterday ordered all state agencies to stop doing business with Bank of America to try to pressure the bank into helping laid-off workers staging a sit-in at their shuttered factory.
The governor want...
DATE: Dec 09, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
Age: 26
Role: Underwriting assistant, Allied World
What is your job? To assist the underwriting team for the general casualty and accident and health reinsurance departments. To keep it simple, I receive submissions from reinsurance brokers who wish ...
DATE: Dec 09, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
LONDON (AP) — A British regulator yesterday considered a last-ditch legal challenge by investors to Lloyds Group TSB's takeover of rival HBOS, just days before a final shareholder vote on the deal.
The Merger Action Group, backed by a group of Scotti...
DATE: Dec 09, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
From the latest news in the UK, the US and Canada to as far afield as India and the Philippines — you name it, Mike Robinson covers it.
For the Bermudian entrepreneur, who runs NewspaperDirect (Bermuda) Ltd., offers paper printed copies of 700 daily ...
DATE: Dec 09, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — MF Global Ltd., the derivatives broker whose stock has dropped 93 percent this year, had its counterparty credit rating outlook revised to negative from stable by Standard & Poor's on expectations that futures trading will slow...
DATE: Dec 08, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
LONDON (AP) — British Airways plans to reduce the number of flights leaving London's Gatwick Airport, the company said, adding that it hopes to shed more than 100 jobs at check-in desks and ground operations there.
British Airways PLC said it plans t...
DATE: Dec 08, 2008
|
CATEGORY:
Other
|
