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The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) has expressed its delight at Bermuda being listed in the top 33 global financial centres for value and volume of shares traded.
The Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI) report, which is published by the City of Londo...
DATE: Mar 05, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street closed mixed yesterday, recuperating from a sharp plunge as investors snapped up bargain stocks on rumours that a bond insurer rescue plan is progressing and upbeat comments from Cisco Systems Inc. and Amazon.com Inc.
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DATE: Mar 05, 2008
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Bermuda-based clients of Marshall Diel & Myers are set to get the benefits of better legal services and resources in multiple jurisdictions following a new deal with a UK-based law firm.
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge UK LLP (EAPD) and MD&M have enter...
DATE: Mar 04, 2008
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The Bombay Palace restaurant has closed after being bought by its former cashier and will be reborn in May as The Caribbean Queen.
Linna Kumar decided to take the plunge into business ownership when her bosses put the Pembroke restaurant up for sale ...
DATE: Mar 04, 2008
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Jonathan Kent
This column usually covers the changes in United States tax law that invariably increase the amount of income tax an expatriate will pay or will discuss methods to minimise income tax. Today we are taking a different tack and will discuss how to turn...
DATE: Mar 04, 2008
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WASHINGTON (Associated Press) - Accenture LLP, the US-based unit of Bermuda-based consulting firm Accenture Ltd., spent more than $3.6 million in 2007 on its own behalf to lobby Washington.
The company spent almost $1.8 million in the second half of ...
DATE: Mar 04, 2008
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LONDON (Reuters) - HSBC's profits rose 10 percent last year as buoyant growth in Hong Kong and elsewhere in Asia helped Europe's biggest bank absorb $17.2 billion in bad debts as the US housing crisis deepened.
Profits in Hong Kong rose 42 percent an...
DATE: Mar 04, 2008
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s offer to accept bond insurance business from rivals including MBIA Inc. has been withdrawn, chairman Warren Buffett told CNBC.
"It's not on the table," Mr. Buffett told the cable news network in an int...
DATE: Mar 04, 2008
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Insurance was the big winner on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday, with both BF&M Ltd. and Argus Holdings Ltd. seeing their respective share prices soar.
Following its 10-for-one stock split, BF&M Ltd. rose $1.50 (7.3 per...
DATE: Mar 04, 2008
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Shares of Bermuda-based bond insurer Security Capital Assurance Ltd. plunged by 53 percent in trading yesterday after the company said it had hired Goldman Sachs and Rothschild Inc. to help map out options for the company's future.
The company announ...
DATE: Mar 04, 2008
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