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Like many executives of Bermuda's global reinsurers, Flagstone Re chairman Mark Byrne's job often involves flying to far-flung corners of the globe in a private jet.
Unlike most executives, however, Mr. Byrne often pilots the plane himself.
A self-co...
DATE: Jun 30, 2008
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Chinese fund manager has won a lunch with famed US investor Warren Buffett after bidding $2.11 million for the opportunity in a charity auction, more than three times what the lunch fetched last year.
Zhao Danyang, who runs Hon...
DATE: Jun 30, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) — Even for an industry awash in bad news, the newspaper business went through one of its most severe retrenchments in recent memory last week.
Half a dozen newspapers said they would slash payrolls, one said it would outsource all its p...
DATE: Jun 30, 2008
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The CEO of an oil and gas driller tops the list of the most highly paid chief executives of Bermuda companies, according to a study done by the Associated Press (AP).
Eugene Isenberg of Nabors Industries Ltd. was No.1 among the big firms on the Islan...
DATE: Jun 30, 2008
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BERLIN (AP) — Hail the size of pingpong balls damaged some 30,000 new vehicles at a Volkswagen plant in northern Germany, a company spokesman said on Friday.
The June 22 hailstorm hit a lot filled with new cars at a plant in Emden, on the North Sea c...
DATE: Jun 30, 2008
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REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) - Bill Gates said a teary goodbye to Microsoft Corp., the software maker he built into the world's most valuable technology company based on the ambitious goal of placing a computer on every desk and in every home.
He le...
DATE: Jun 30, 2008
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It was a case of losses across the board on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index last week, with no fewer than four companies seeing their share prices fall.
BF&M Ltd. experienced the biggest drop of $1.25 to close at $20.75, with 1,768 sha...
DATE: Jun 30, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) — The year is nearly halfway over, and Wall Street appears to be on even shakier ground than when it began 2008. And this shortened week ahead of the Fourth of July holiday is unlikely to bring the market enough proof that the economic ...
DATE: Jun 30, 2008
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Bermuda Commercial Bank Ltd. experienced a reversal of fortunes from the previous day as it dropped $1.05 (8.75 percent) on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
The bank had climbed $1 on Thursday, but fell back to $10.95, ...
DATE: Jun 28, 2008
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Last week, this newspaper ran a list of the salaries of some of the chief executive officers at Bermuda insurance companies. The publication of such lists is usually accompanied by outrage at the hugeness of the figures, even though the men and women...
DATE: Jun 28, 2008
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