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TORONTO (Bloomberg) - Canadian financial stocks fell, led by Royal Bank of Canada, after Merrill Lynch & Co. posted its widest quarterly loss on writedowns of US sub-prime home loans.
The benchmark equity index was little changed after EnCana Corp., ...
DATE: Oct 25, 2007
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Insured losses from the California wildfires are now more than $1 billion according to a leading industry analyst.
The extent of destruction to insured property caused by at least 16 significant wildland fires burning across the state from Santa Barb...
DATE: Oct 25, 2007
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The world famous Faberge brand is set to be revived by an investment group led by London-based mining insurance company Pallinghurst Resources.
Pallinghurst, whose Guernsey branch raised $169 million from an initial public offering on the Bermuda Sto...
DATE: Oct 25, 2007
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California-based EQECAT, a leading authority on extreme-risk modelling, has signed a multi-year renewal agreement with independent reinsurance and risk intermediary Benfield to license all of EQECAT's currently available WORLDCATenterprise earthquake...
DATE: Oct 25, 2007
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Willis Group Holdings was unable to reproduce its fine profits of $89 million for the third quarter 2006, dropping $22 million to $67 million this year.
Net income was 46 cents per diluted share in the third quarter 2007 compared to 56 cents for the ...
DATE: Oct 25, 2007
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Insurance and transportation was up while banks were down on the Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
BF&M Ltd. benefited the most as their share price soared 50 cents (2.6 percent) to close at $19.50, with 1,600 shares traded....
DATE: Oct 24, 2007
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Getting people to lead a healthier lifestyle - that is the idea behind a new “smoothie card” launched by Buzz cafe.
The Healthy Buzz Pass, which costs $28, entitles the holder to five medium fresh fruit smoothies from Buzz in Washington Mall or Buzz ...
DATE: Oct 24, 2007
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Bermuda’s biggest insurance and reinsurance company ACE saw its profits soar by 13 percent during a successful third quarter, a percentage rise that exactly mirrored the percentage profit loss suffered by their closest rival and neighbour XL Capital....
DATE: Oct 24, 2007
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In an amazing three-page essay I have read at least four times in an unsuccessful bid to understand "e=mc squared", Albert Einstien famously said: "You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
Scientists have ...
DATE: Oct 24, 2007
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IPC Holdings saw its profits slump by just over $2 million for the third quarter in the wake of a series of earthquakes and hurricanes across the world.
Its net income dropped from $115 million, or $1.60 per common share in the same quarter last year...
DATE: Oct 24, 2007
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