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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Ike, which blasted the densely populated Texas coast and swept through Houston on Saturday, could trigger insurance claims between $8 billion and $18 billion, according to early estimates of the damage.
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Some familiar faces will be on hand to give Bermuda's business women advice on how to succeed in their careers at a top conference this week.
The 2008 Bermuda Business Women's Conference and the Inaugural Athena International Award, which will be hel...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the financial crisis that began with the collapse of the subprime-mortgage market last year "is probably a once in a century event" that will lead to the failure of more firms...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — The dollar fell the most against the euro since January 2006, pushing it down from a one-year high, on reduced demand for the greenback as a haven.
The euro, the Brazilian real and the pound advanced versus the yen as Lehman Br...
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock exhange fell 112.20 (2.58 percent) last week to close Friday at 4,334.45.
Butterfield Bank shares saw the most trading in volume with 30,785 shares changing hands last week. Butterfield ended the week at $14.30, a $0.2...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - MF Global Ltd., the world's largest broker of exchange-traded futures contracts, named Bernard Dan as its global chief operating officer.
Mr. Dan, former head of the Chicago Board of Trade, will oversee operations in more than ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Government officials and top Wall Street bankers continued talks yesterday in a harried effort to sell Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and avoid a collapse of the beleaguered investment bank that could severely disrupt global markets.
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Balancing your life and taking care of your body, mind and spirit will be the focus for a speech by ZBM news presenter Sangita Iyer at the 2008 Bermuda Business Women's Conference on Saturday.
Ms Iyer will be talking from first-hand experience of how...
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Bermuda-based Foster Wheeler Ltd. on Friday said its board of directors has authorised a common share repurchase programme.
Under the programme, the company is authorized to repurchase up to $750 million of its outstanding common shares.
"We have sta...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - US oil prices dropped more than $2 to a six-month low below $99 a barrel yesterday as dealers bet on a swift recovery of the nation's energy production after Hurricane Ike and the US government loaned oil to two refiners.
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