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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp hopes to build a $1 billion facility off the New Jersey coast to receive and regasify liquefied natural gas, which could ease concerns of a natural gas supply crunch in the US Northeast.
The largest US oil and ga...
DATE: Dec 12, 2007
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–BEIJING (AP) - China and the United States signed agreements yesterday to increase safeguards over Chinese products and to open up mid-sized Chinese cities to American imports, a move aimed at assuaging critics of Beijing's massive trade surplus.
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A Bermuda insurance company is thought to be in discussions geared at making an imminent bid for Lloyd's of London-listed insurer Kiln.
With the Island's insurance and reinsurance companies awash with money after two extremely quiet years, in terms o...
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — ICAP, the world's largest broker of deals between banks, and insurance company Jardine Lloyd Thompson arranged their first catastrophe swap transaction since forming a joint venture 10 months ago.
The contract is designed to insu...
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The dangers of identity theft are very much in the news these days, with government departments in the UK taking the brunt of the criticism.
The most dangerous, to 25 million people, was the government revelation last month that two discs holding th...
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BOSTON (Reuters) - The pastel-colored buildings lining Bermuda's main commercial district are home to thousands of the world's top hedge funds — from Europe's Man Group and GAM to Connecticut's DKR Capital.
But the British colony has been struggling ...
DATE: Dec 12, 2007
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–SEATTLE (AP) - Washington Mutual's move to slash staff and launch a massive stock offering to shore up its finances may smack of desperation, analysts said yesterday as the bank's shares tumbled nearly 12 percent.
The stock price of the nation's lar...
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Butterfield Bank was the only company to experience any change of the Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
The bank dropped five cents to close down at $18.50, with 50,200 shares traded.
Overall, the Index was down 7.99 points ...
DATE: Dec 12, 2007
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One of Bermuda's top job recruitment agencies has given the thumbs up to Government's new online immigration system.
BermudaJOBS' immigration processing services team manager Christina Herzog said it welcomed the launch of the online questionnaire fo...
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CALGARY (Bloomberg) - Imperial Oil Ltd. said it appointed Bruce March as president of Canada's largest oil company effective from January 1, 2008.
Timothy Hearn will continue as chairman and chief executive officer, the Calgary-based company said tod...
DATE: Dec 12, 2007
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