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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Frontline Ltd., the world's largest operator of supertankers by capacity, ordered four of the vessels from China's Zhoushan Jinhaiwan Shipyard Co. Ltd.
The carriers will be delivered between June and December of 201...
DATE: Apr 29, 2008
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CHICAGO (AP) — William Wrigley Jr.'s family spent more than 115 years building the soap salesman's fledging company into a massive corporation that made chewing gum a mass-market product.
But yesterday, the Wrigley clan announced it's finally cashing...
DATE: Apr 29, 2008
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Advent Capital Holdings Plc, a Lloyd's of London insurer and reinsurer, fell the most in over a year in London trading after reporting a first-quarter loss.
Advent Capital dropped 2.5 pence, or 9.8 percent, to 23 pence, the bigge...
DATE: Apr 29, 2008
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange rose 9.45 points yesterday.
It closed at 5039.65, an increase of 0.19 percent, after 41,536 shares swapped hands.
KeyTech saw its share price rise by 12.26 percent yesterday. The utilities company finished the...
DATE: Apr 29, 2008
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Ironshore Insurance Ltd. was added to the Excess Line Association of New York list last week.
This enables the company, which was set up in January 2007, to provide commercial property and property catastrophe insurance on an excess and surplus basis...
DATE: Apr 29, 2008
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DETROIT (AP) — Billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian, making another attempt to shape the US automotive industry, disclosed yesterday that he had acquired a 4.7-percent stake in Ford Motor Co. and hoped to boost his holdings as the company tries to ret...
DATE: Apr 29, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street finished little changed yesterday as investors turned cautious ahead of the Federal Reserve's two-day policy meeting, which starts Tuesday.
Stocks advanced for most of the session, then pulled back modestly in the final mi...
DATE: Apr 29, 2008
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PartnerRe last night reported a 24 percent drop in first-quarter income compared to 2007.
The Bermuda reinsurer posted a net income of $129 million, or $2.16 per share, for the first three months of the year, down $40 million compared to the same per...
DATE: Apr 29, 2008
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Gains on the Toronto Stock Exchange fizzled out yesterday, sending the main index slightly lower on profit-taking, following a strong run-up spurred by record high oil prices.
The energy sector, which earlier rose by as much as 1....
DATE: Apr 29, 2008
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The Bermuda Small Business Development Corporation is hosting a marketing seminar today.
The breakfast seminar is the first of its quarterly business workshops entitled Marketing Matters. It will provide small to medium sized business owners with ide...
DATE: Apr 29, 2008
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