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Bermuda-based Axis Specialty Ltd. yesterday announced that it had been approved to start writing general insurance business in Singapore.
The company, an operating subsidiary of Axis Capital Holdings Ltd., has had a representative office in the Asian...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street finished mixed in fickle trading yesterday, with investors still unsettled about the economy ahead of tomorrow's employment report and only somewhat relieved about sliding commodities prices.
The Commerce Department gave t...
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Bermuda-based Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. has appointed Lauren Kent as senior underwriting manager and head of reinsurance for Endurance Worldwide Insurance Ltd. in London.
Ms Kent has 18 years of industry experience including five years with ...
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Another small island is investing in its insurance industry with Gibraltar launching the Gibraltar Insurance Institute this week.
Gerald Simons, former president of the Bermuda Insurance Institute, spoke at yesterday's institute launch on the British...
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Advertising Standards Authority has banned US oil major ExxonMobil from continuing to show a TV advert saying liquefied natural gas is one of the cleanest fuels, the watchdog said yesterday.
Four viewers had challenged Ex...
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks fell for a second day as commodity prices declined further, extending bear markets for such raw-materials and energy producers as Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. and EnCana Corp.
The slump in shares of commodit...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - American International Group Inc sees China becoming a much larger part of its general insurance business within the next five years, Nicholas Walsh, executive vice-president of the foreign general insurance division, said yester...
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LONDON (AP) — British Airways PLC said yesterday that market conditions remain very difficult as the benefits of recent falls in the price of oil have been outweighed by a stronger US dollar.
BA shares fell almost four percent after it released traff...
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Bermudian students are set to get a head start in their careers after The Bermuda Hotel Association (BHA) announced its BHA Scholarship 2008 winners.
John Harvey, CEO of the BHA announced the recipients were Edison Jecoa Tucker, who is studying for B...
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British Airways (BA) has been inundated with customers after bookings and flights following the collapse of Zoom Airlines last Thursday.
In a statement on the company's website, Zoom, which started its Bermuda service in June 2007, blamed rising fuel...
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