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With a significant rise in the number of re/insurance companies starting up in Bermuda last year, 2008 looks set to be another big year for the industry. ALEX WRIGHT takes a look at what the Bermuda Insurance Institute is doing to get more people int...
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LONDON - Bank of England policymakers yesterday decided to keep UK interest rates unchanged at 5.5 perecent. Analysts said the Bank faced a tough decision, having to balance signs of a slowdown in consumer spending against growing inflationary pressu...
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NEW DELHI (AP) - For millions of people in the developing world, Tata Motor's new $2,500 four-door sub-compact - the world's cheapest car - may yield a transportation revolution with as great an impact as Henry Ford's Model T, which rolled off an ass...
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LONDON - Britain's top shares slid 1.3 percent as Marks & Spencer suffered its biggest ever fall after its worst quarterly performance in two years and as fears of a US recession gripped global equities. The FTSE 100 closed at 6,272.7 points, down 83...
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The capitalisation of Bermuda's reinsurance industry rose more than 20 percent to reach $129 billion by the end of the third quarter of 2007.
That staggering figure is greater than the 2006 gross domestic product of many countries, including Pakistan...
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index came back from big early losses to finish higher yesterday, as firm banking and resource issues helped yank the index higher.
Heightened investor expectations of further interest rate cuts h...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — The next bubble to deflate may be Alan Greenspan's reputation.
Hailed as perhaps the greatest central banker who ever lived when he left the Federal Reserve in 2006, Greenspan is under attack from critics ranging from the New Y...
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NEW YORK (AP) — British Airways plans to launch a new airline in June that will offer direct service between New York and the European mainland, catering mainly to business and affluent leisure travellers.
The new carrier, named "OpenSkies," will beg...
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It proved to be a quiet day on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX), with only Butterfield Bank doing any trading yesterday.
The Bank saw its share price drop five cents (0.3 percent) to close at $17.90, with 6,166 shares changing han...
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Carl Nanton epitomises the work of the Bermuda Insurance Institute (BII), having firstly studied courses there, he now finds himself training its students.
Mr. Nanton, who doubles as the assistant vice-president of life and pensions at the Argus Grou...
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