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Bermuda-based shipping firm Knightsbridge Tankers boosted its earning potential for the third quarter 2007 by $2,400 per day.
The company, which operates out of Hamilton, saw its average daily time charter equivalents earned by its five very large cr...
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As the young men took their seats around the enormous boardroom table, their manner was suitably composed, but it was obvious that this was not an environment they had expected to find themselves in quite this soon, if ever.
The occasion was the form...
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NEW YORK (Businesswire) — AIG Environmental, a division of the property and casualty subsidiaries of American International Group, has announced AIG Environmental Portal, an online tool designed to streamline the underwriting process and provide easy...
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OSLO, Norway (AP) — Nymex Holdings, the parent company of the New York Mercantile Exchange, will buy a 15.1 percent stake in the Norwegian financial derivatives exchange Imarex ASA for about $52 million.
Oslo-based Imarex specializes in markets for b...
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Butterfield Bank was the only company to experience any change on the Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
The bank's share value dropped five cents (0.3 percent) to close at $18.85, with 1,600 shares traded.
BF&M Ltd., meanwhi...
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BEIJING (Bloomberg) - Yahoo! Inc., competing with Google Inc. to attract Internet traffic on wireless devices, will offer its search engine to mobile-phone users in Latin America, building on an expansion in Europe and Asia.
Wireless customers in Arg...
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MACAU (Bloomberg) - Apple Inc. rose the most in more than a year in Nasdaq trading after China Mobile Ltd., the world's biggest wireless operator, said it is in talks to sell the iPhone.
Apple, rebounding after four days of declines, advanced 11 perc...
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WALL STREET JOURNAL - Predictions of the demise of bond insurers could be premature, particularly if they succeed in securing lifelines from a deep-pocketed insurance salesman in Omaha, Neb.
Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, stands to c...
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Bermuda-registered Orient-Express Hotels, owners or part-owners and managers of 50 luxury hotels, restaurants, river cruise properties and the famouse Orient Express tourist train, has named Martin O'Grady its new chief financial officer.
The 43-year...
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As part of the column published last week on internet charges around the world I asked the Computer Society of Bermuda (CSB) to compare the island's rates with the OECD's figures.
The CSB was not able to get the figures to me in the few hours I gave ...
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