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In a bid to attract more insurance business from Latin America to Bermuda, a Bermudian lawyer has been extolling the Island's virtues in the global scene to a joint meeting of two powerful risk management organisations in the region.
Policies introdu...
DATE: Nov 21, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - Merrill Lynch & Co., the world's biggest brokerage firm, ousted the co-head of its Asian fixed-income business amid a management shake-up following $8.4 billion of losses on sub-prime mortgage-related securities and bad loans.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve reported yesterday that it expects slower US economic growth and a slight bump up in unemployment next year due to the housing slump and a credit crunch. The board also said, however, that it thinks inflation wil...
DATE: Nov 21, 2007
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Construction of single-family homes in the US in October skidded to the lowest level in 16 years although the slide was cushioned somewhat by a rebound in apartment building.
The Commerce Department reported yesterday that total hou...
DATE: Nov 21, 2007
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IS it OK for a minister to live large? A new probe by Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Finance Committee, will certainly call into question whether it's appropriate for some leaders of multimillion-dollar ministries to live ...
DATE: Nov 21, 2007
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A "slump-proof" investment portfolio can be a challenge. It is what many investors demand in turbulent times, even though history indicates the stock market eventually recovers from its slumps anyway.
You should at least have a strategy in place befo...
DATE: Nov 21, 2007
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–NEW YORK (AP) - Each holiday season, a couple hard-to-find toys send parents hunting from store to store.
And, each season, they're soon forgotten: Has your Elmo gotten any tickles lately?
But this year, it looks like the gift everybody is looking f...
DATE: Nov 21, 2007
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LONDON (AP) — Budget airline easyJet reported a 62 percent jump in full-year net profit yesterday after it carried more passengers on more routes. But the company remained cautious about rising fuel costs in the future.
The carrier reported a net pro...
DATE: Nov 21, 2007
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SEATTLE/NEW YORK (PRNewswire via COMTEX) — If an influenza pandemic occurred this year, fewer than one-fifth of the approximately 13 billion vaccine doses needed to fully vaccinate the global population would be available within six months in a best-...
DATE: Nov 21, 2007
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Bermuda has moved a step closer to a more competitive market place for internet and international telecommunications after Government announced late yesterday that it is prepared to offer a consortium of domestic companies a licence to install a new ...
DATE: Nov 21, 2007
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