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Like more or less everyone, I was greatly surprised by the attack on Bermuda's reputation unleashed by the British this week. No one who knows anything about the matter would have made such intemperate comments: Bermuda is very much in the vanguard o...
DATE: May 03, 2008
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) closed at 5,036.61 yesterday.
In total 34,200 shares were traded, valued at $0.58 million and the Index rose 0.6 percent, or 30 points.
The Argus Group saw its share price rise seven percent, or $1.20, a...
DATE: May 03, 2008
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KeyTech saw its share price drop 80 cents yesterday, finishing at $13.5.
The utilities company dropped 5.6 percent after 733 shares swapped hands.
The Argus Group was the only other company to see its share price drop on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Sto...
DATE: May 02, 2008
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The Catlin Syndicate, operated by the Bermuda-based Catlin Group, is leading the cargo insurance coverage for goods transported by an innovative new rail container service linking Europe with China.
The first trains operating on the Far East Land Bri...
DATE: May 02, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is under investigation by the Connecticut attorney general for possible conflicts between its ownership of almost 20 percent of credit ratings company Moody's Corp. and his n...
DATE: May 02, 2008
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Bermuda reinsurer Validus Holdings Ltd. yesterday reported a 17-percent increase in net income, thanks in part to its acquisition of Lloyd's specialty insurer Talbot.
Validus said its net income for the first three months of 2008 totalled $66.5 milli...
DATE: May 02, 2008
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Bermuda's banking industry was on show for all to see on the international stage at the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) 2008 conference held in San Diego this week.
The Bank of Bermuda and Butterfield Bank both had booths at the event, a...
DATE: May 02, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Tyco Electronics Ltd., the world's biggest maker of electronic connectors, said second-quarter profit rose 7.5 percent, beating analysts' estimates, on higher overseas sales. The company said full-year profit will...
DATE: May 02, 2008
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In one of the largest fines ever to be handed down in a common law jurisdiction, over $45 million of the Bermuda-based IPOC International Growth's British Virgin Islands holdings were confiscated after the fund pleaded guilty on Wednesday to perverti...
DATE: May 02, 2008
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Reinsurer Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. reported a lower first-quarter profit that missed analysts' estimates as net investment income slumped 37 percent.
The Bermuda-based company posted net income of $77.8 million, $1.15 a share, for the first ...
DATE: May 02, 2008
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