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Butterfield Bank has appointed Bob Wilson as senior vice-president and head of Bermuda banking with overall responsibility for retail, corporate and electronic banking.
Mr. Wilson joined Butterfield in 1994 as senior lending manager with the bank's L...
DATE: Sep 04, 2008
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - Signet Group Plc., the world's largest jewellery-store owner, said second-quarter profit fell 48 percent after a slump in US consumer confidence hurt sales.
Net income dropped to $19.1 million, or 1.2 cents a share, in the 13 wee...
DATE: Sep 04, 2008
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's services sector contracted at a slower pace than expected in August, but a gloomy consumer mood failed to improve and analysts still expect the economy to shrink and interest rates to fall.
Yesterday's figures came hot on...
DATE: Sep 04, 2008
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Bermuda insurer, pension provider and investment firm BF&M Ltd. yesterday announced a $13.2 million profit for the first six months of this year — up eight percent on the same period last year.
Return on shareholders' equity was 20 percent, as chief ...
DATE: Sep 03, 2008
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Bermuda's youth is set to benefit from a series of programmes and services sponsored by the newly-formed Argo Foundation, The Royal Gazette can exclusively reveal.
Argo Group International Holdings Ltd., an international property and casualty special...
DATE: Sep 03, 2008
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Let us observe that the current US presidential election has raised the bar on a no-holds-barred fight over the Internet for voters.
Both the Republican and Democratic campaigns provide examples of how the Internet can be leveraged in the path to pow...
DATE: Sep 03, 2008
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Bermuda Commercial Bank yesterday named Bermudian Horst Finkbeiner II as its new chief operating officer, succeeding Dominique Smith, whose retirement was announced last Friday.
Ms Smith had worked for BCB for more than 12 years and was appointed COO...
DATE: Sep 03, 2008
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TOKYO (AP) - Sales are improving in Japan for Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld video game machine, and a beefed-up version with a clearer display is expected to add momentum, a senior executive said yesterday.
The portable game machin...
DATE: Sep 03, 2008
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new york (Bloomberg) — Insured losses from Hurricane Gustav, which lashed the Louisiana coast yesterday, may not be as high as the first damage estimates indicated, according to firms that specialise in predicting catastrophes.
The hurricane lost pow...
DATE: Sep 03, 2008
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One of the first things I did eight years ago after converting my CD collection to MP3 files on my personal computer was to snake a cable from the PC to my stereo system in another room. The setup gave me the pleasure of piping music throughout my ho...
DATE: Sep 03, 2008
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