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Fears have been raised over the increase in overseas spending and the impact it will have on Bermuda's retail market, according to chairman of the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce, Kristi Grayston.
This follows the latest Retail Sales Index...
DATE: Jul 11, 2007
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Bermuda-based insurer Catlin Group Ltd. had the outlook on its ratings raised to positive from stable by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services.
S&P cited Catlin's progress in developing a strongly diversified and profitable business model in key interna...
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Bermuda-based Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings Ltd. has appointed several industry executives to senior underwriting positions for non-catastrophe and specialty lines of business.
Andreas Peter, who has joined Flagstone Re subsidiary Flagstone Reassur...
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Demand for oil-tankers may increase 3.5 percent in the next five years because cargoes are being hauled over longer distances, according to the International Energy Agency.China and the US, the world's biggest oil-consumers, will...
DATE: Jul 11, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street edged higher in an erratic session yesterday as investors were reassured by a drop in Treasury bond yields yet still remained cautious as second-quarter earnings season kicks off this week.Investors were looking to corpora...
DATE: Jul 10, 2007
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LONDON — Britain's top share index rose to the highest close in more than three weeks, as miners and a jump in Tate & Lyle boosted the FTSE amidst a wider rally in global stocks. The FTSE 100 index closed 0.34 percent higher, or up 22.6 points at 6,7...
DATE: Jul 10, 2007
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LONDON (Reuters) — Waterlogged fields in Britain are fuelling a rise in vegetable prices that is already feeding through to restaurants, adding to worries over food inflation, industry officials said yesterday. Some commodities like wheat are rising ...
DATE: Jul 10, 2007
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Cable & Wireless Plc, the UK's second-biggest phone company, will provide internet-based television services for Inuk Networks Ltd.'s Freewire unit in a five-year deal valued at about $70 million ($141 million.)C&W will provide a...
DATE: Jul 10, 2007
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LONDON (AP) — BP PLC said yesterday it has temporarily frozen severance payments worth around $2 million ($4 million) owed to former chief executive John Browne and former refining chief John Manzoni.Shareholders sought the freeze as part of a US law...
DATE: Jul 10, 2007
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LONDON (Reuters) — UK insurers, facing a bill of around $1.5 billion ($3 billion) after June's floods, want more information on the country's flood defences and the state of the defence system to help them continue to offer cover.Britain's wettest Ju...
DATE: Jul 10, 2007
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