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Bermuda-based Internet security firm QuoVadis has continued its expansion into Europe with the opening of offices in the Netherlands, as well as gaining accreditation there as a Qualified Certification Services Provider (CSP).
The new QuoVadis subsid...
DATE: Aug 25, 2008
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LONDON (Bloomberg) - Aon Corp., the world's biggest insurance broker, agreed to buy London-based Benfield Group Ltd. for £844 million ($1.6 billion) after the companies settled a legal dispute a year and a half ago.
Benfield surged 27 percent to 345....
DATE: Aug 25, 2008
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WP Stewart & Co., Ltd. has promoted Mark Phelps to CEO, effective from the start of next month.
Mr. Phelps, who is currently president and managing director of the company, will also join the board of directors.
Meanwhile WP Stewart has reported a ne...
DATE: Aug 25, 2008
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Major economies, across the world, are stumbling and the near-term outlook is not encouraging. Fear of inflation has been largely replaced by worries about downside risks to growth. But it is well to note that while inflation angst has diminished, re...
DATE: Aug 25, 2008
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Taxpayers across the US would face a bill in the hundreds of billions of dollars in the event of a repeat of the hurricane season of 2005, if proposals to provide a federal reinsurance backstop become law.
A report entitled "The Economic Effects of P...
DATE: Aug 25, 2008
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Business is still booming in Bermuda's construction industry despite a significant downturn in the global economy.
Alex DeCouto, president of the Construction Association of Bermuda, said that the mood in the sector was upbeat, based on the experienc...
DATE: Aug 25, 2008
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Profit and loss: I lost an old friend this week, and made a new one, all in the space of 10 minutes. And they say nothing ever happens in St. George's. I do not want to talk about the old friend, and I am not going to tell you much about the new one,...
DATE: Aug 23, 2008
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Q. I am disappointed with the performance of my Nokia Corp. shares this year. Will they be doing any better? - LH
A. The world's largest maker of mobile phones recently signed a major deal that could boost its lagging US sales.
It signed a 15-year li...
DATE: Aug 23, 2008
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In the 1970s, there was an Enjoli perfume commercial showing a woman, clutching a fist full of money, who proclaimed she could bring home the bacon and fry it up in a pan.
The jingle with the ad empowered me. Whenever it aired, I would prance around ...
DATE: Aug 23, 2008
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There is one thing to be said about celebrity train wreck marriages: Folks like Alex Rodriguez, Phil Collins and Morgan Freeman can afford to make big fat divorce settlements, and move on.
That is not so true for most everyday people. In fact, tough ...
DATE: Aug 23, 2008
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