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LONDON (Reuters) - Oil slid by $2 to a six-week low below $89 a barrel yesterday as stock markets fell and concern mounted over an economic slow-down led by top consumer the United States.
Stock markets across the world took a battering as anxiety sp...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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Newly-designed Bermuda dollar bank notes are set to hit the streets early next year and will represent the first complete redesign of the currency since it was launched in 1970.
The new banknotes will be the same size as the current ones, with a flor...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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Former Bermuda Police Service Superintendent Sinclair White was yesterday named as the chairman of the Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA), the latest addition to the Island's armoury in the war on money laundering.
And Government has also hired form...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) - Canada's main stock index dropped the most in almost seven years, led by oil and metal producers, after concern that the US economy is shrinking spurred a worldwide sell-off in equities.
Suncor Energy Inc. and Potash Corp. of Sa...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — British Airways pilots will vote whether to strike in protest over plans by the carrier, Europe's third-largest, to start a subsidiary in continental Europe.
Pilots are concerned that workers at the new carrier will be hired on c...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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One of the most important aspects of the IT sector is to stay on the cutting edge of technology and one step ahead of the competition.
And that is exactly what Applied Computer Technologies (ACT) has been striving to do for the past 25 years it has b...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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Bermuda-based insurers Catlin Group Ltd. will lead the launch of a new product designed to cover investors in hedge funds against the risk of fraud by fund managers and staff.
Catlin, Great Lakes Reinsurance (UK) plc., part of the Munich Reinsurance ...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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The number of insurance start-ups setting up shop in Bermuda declined last year compared to 2006.
Two years ago 82 insurers and reinsurers launched their businesses on the Island, but that figure dropped to 71 during 2007.
The main reason behind it w...
DATE: Jan 22, 2008
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The chance reading of a magazine article and a desire to find a business opportunity for Bermudians has led to the launch of the Bermuda branch of a travel website.
Former UBP leader Wayne Furbert claims to be the first Bermudian to join the US-based...
DATE: Jan 21, 2008
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Wilton Reinsurance Bermuda Ltd. has had its outlook revised from stable to positive and affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of A- (excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of a- of Wilton by AM Best & Co., along with Wilton Reassurance Com...
DATE: Jan 21, 2008
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