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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index tumbled nearly 7 percent on yesterday, the biggest drop in eight years, as US lawmakers rejected a proposed $700 billion bailout of the financial services sector, sending investors fleeing f...
DATE: Sep 30, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street's worst fears came to pass yesterday, when the government's financial bailout plan failed in Congress and stocks plunged precipitously — hurtling the Dow Jones industrials down nearly 780 points in their largest one-day po...
DATE: Sep 30, 2008
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Small businesses feel the pinch
Small business owners were bracing for tough times even before this month's economic upheaval, according to a new survey.
The Wells Fargo/Gallup survey, which polled small business owners three months ago, said its "op...
DATE: Sep 30, 2008
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XL Capital Ltd. could pay out up to $270 million in claims for Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, the Bermuda-based insurer revealed yesterday.
The insurance giant also announced that less than one-quarter of one percent of its investment portfolio was expos...
DATE: Sep 30, 2008
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DHL launches new express delivery service
Express services and logistics company DHL has launched a new express delivery, time definite service in Bermuda and the Caribbean: DHL Express 10.30 a.m. for deliveries to the US.
The new morning express del...
DATE: Sep 30, 2008
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Bermuda reinsurers saw their profits fall by nearly a third in the first half of this year, as pricing remained weak.
Net income for the 18 reinsurers surveyed by Benfield Group plc. dropped 32 percent to $4.3 billion during the first six months of 2...
DATE: Sep 30, 2008
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Falling ceilings and shelves, overflowing toilets and floods and even imaginary fires.
Those are just some of the things that Jean Astwood has to deal with on a daily basis as Rego Realtors' manager of rentals and property management.
But Jean, who h...
DATE: Sep 30, 2008
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Students will be able to make their first step on the career ladder thanks to a new work initiative launched by the Bermuda Employers Council (BEC).
The WorkReady programme, which prepares young Bermudians for the workforce, was officially launched b...
DATE: Sep 30, 2008
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LONDON (AP) — European governments announced a flurry of bank bailouts from Germany to Iceland yesterday, but the rescue deals only heightened fears that the contagion from the US credit crisis has much further to spread before the financial system r...
DATE: Sep 30, 2008
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Cable & Wireless' (C&W) new CEO Gregory Jordan has marked the start of his era with the construction of a state-of-the-art data centre in Bermuda.
The new data centre in Devonshire brings C&W's number of data centres on the Island to three and Mr. Jo...
DATE: Sep 29, 2008
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