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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - A firm run by Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, former CEO of American International Group Inc., has bought a Dallas-based property and casualty insurer from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Greenberg's closely held investment ...
DATE: Oct 04, 2007
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A $1.4 billion insurance and reinsurance company has moved its headquarters to Bermuda as the latest step in its business development.
CIFG's France-domiciled holding company CIFG Holding and its Triple-A reinsurance firm CIFG Guaranty, also domicile...
DATE: Oct 04, 2007
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Bermuda's inflation rate remained in the four percent and over bracket for the fourth successive month in August, the Government announced yesterday.
Consumers paid 4.0 percent more for typical household goods and services in August this year than th...
DATE: Oct 04, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) - Semiconductor testing and assembly services company ChipMOS Technologies (Bermuda) has said that the Taipei District Court found its CEO and chairman, Shih-Jye Cheng, not guilty for the first instance of misusing corporate funds.
In D...
DATE: Oct 03, 2007
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The banking sector proved to be where the safe money is as Bermuda Commercial Bank boosted its share value by 50 cents (4.2 percent) on the Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
The Bank's share price closed at $12.50, as 700 sh...
DATE: Oct 03, 2007
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LONDON (Business Wire) - ACE European Group (ACE) has promoted Wayne Harrington to UK & Ireland Manager, Environmental Risk.
They have also appointed Iain Harrison as Environmental Risk Underwriter, as part of the ongoing strategy to grow its environ...
DATE: Oct 03, 2007
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CHICAGO (Bloomberg) - Tyco Electronics said its board authorised a new share repurchase program to buy as much as $750 million of shares and announced a quarterly cash dividend of 14 cents a share.
The dividend is the Tyco's first as an independent c...
DATE: Oct 03, 2007
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Consumers are racing to replace their aging televisions with high-definition TVs. Trouble is, many are still using devices and services that can't fill those HDTVs with enough visual information to make them look their best.
Sony...
DATE: Oct 03, 2007
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Here is one of those pieces of research I regularly shift through, that when I come to it, I think the future has arrived. A press release from Tufts University describes how its researchers are developing techniques that could allow computers to res...
DATE: Oct 03, 2007
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With outsourcing proving to be the burning issue of the day for business leaders across Bermuda, one such company specialising in the industry has joined forces with a paperless trading service to form a dedicated market utility.
Outsourcing firm Xch...
DATE: Oct 03, 2007
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