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TORONTO (Reuters) – The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index ended a choppy session lower yesterday, dragged down by resource shares that fell with commodity prices, while uncertainty continued to surround the US bailout proposal.
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DATE: Sep 24, 2008
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I am one of those people who constantly make lists of things to do and buy.
But instead of doing or buying I just end up with pieces of paper that pile up one on top of the other as I remember new actions I have to – or rather should – take sometime ...
DATE: Sep 24, 2008
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Luxury home sales in Bermuda dropped in the first half of 2008, but as recently as July, realtors were guardedly optimistic that the second half of the year would see an improvement.
Now, with global financial markets in turmoil, they say that the hi...
DATE: Sep 24, 2008
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index dropped 43.68 points as Butterfield Bank hit a 52-week low.
Butterfield dropped 25 cents to $13.15 a share – 25 cents belows its 52-week high – on volume of 42,785 shares.
No other shares changed price y...
DATE: Sep 23, 2008
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Axis Capital Holdings Ltd.'s board of directors has appointed former Bermuda Monetary Authority chairwoman Cheryl-Ann Lister to the board as an independent director.
Mrs. Lister will serve as a Class II director and as a member of the audit committee...
DATE: Sep 23, 2008
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An alarming increase in the number of burglaries and break-ins in Bermuda prompted Antoniette Talbot to set up her own inventory recording service.
Bermuda Inventory Recording Service, which is the first of its kind on the Island, covers everything f...
DATE: Sep 23, 2008
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bond insurer MBIA said yesterday it would have enough resources to fund potential termination payments related to investment contracts if rating agencies downgraded the notes of its subsidiary MBIA Insurance Corp.
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DATE: Sep 23, 2008
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The Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc. (RIMS) has joined the opposition to US legislation disallowing tax deductions for reinsurance premiums paid to foreign affiliates that exceed the industry average for each line of property and casualty ...
DATE: Sep 23, 2008
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Bermuda-based Seadrill has been awarded a five-year firm contract for the semi-submersible tender rig West Alliance for operations in South East Asia.
The contract will start in January 2010 in direct continuation of existing contract.
The total cont...
DATE: Sep 23, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Max Capital Group Ltd., the Bermuda-based reinsurer with 20 percent of its investments in hedge funds and private equity, fell the most since going public in 2001 after saying the holdings declined in July and August.
The so-ca...
DATE: Sep 23, 2008
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