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Bermuda CableVision announced yesterday that it is to take business and financial news channel CNBC off the air, as of July 31.
An expiring satellite agreement was the reason given for the change and the company is now seeking a replacement channel.
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DATE: Jun 29, 2007
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Bermuda-based global hedge fund administrator Fulcrum Ltd. has accepted a $57 million investment from 3i Growth Capital that secures its independence from rivals seeking to consolidate.
It also gives Fulcrum the financial clout and backing to do busi...
DATE: Jun 29, 2007
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Brasil Telecom GlobeNet has protected its submarine fibre-optic link between Bermuda and New Jersey from commercial fishing activity by reburying the cable.
In a statement yesterday, the company announced: "This section of the cable network runs alon...
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LONDON(Bloomberg) — British Airways, Europe's third-largest airline, will decide in September which planes to buy to replace aircraft in its long-haul fleet.The airline, which flies direct between Bermuda and London Gatwick, is considering planes fro...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Willis Group Holdings Ltd., the world's third-largest insurance broker, bought InsuranceNoodle, a Chicago- based online broker. Terms weren't disclosed.Willis will use InsuranceNoodle's technology to win more small-business cli...
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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — The government has started distributing payments to thousands of coffee growers to help them recover from Hurricane Ivan, which devastated their fields in 2004.About 3,200 farmers across the Caribbean island will get a portio...
DATE: Jun 29, 2007
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DRESDEN, Germany (AP) — Hewlett-Packard Co. improved its standing on the latest list of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers.IBM Corp. still dominates with six of the top 10, including the BlueGene/L computer at the Lawrence Livermore nuclear lab. ...
DATE: Jun 29, 2007
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Insurers could be hit with claims totalling more than $500 million from this week's UK floods, according to initial estimates by catastrophe modelling specialists Risk Management Solutions.
The severe and widespread flooding, which has hit northeast ...
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks fell for fourth time in five days after the US Federal Reserve left borrowing costs unchanged and said that inflation remains the greatest risk facing the US economy, Canada's biggest export market.EnCana decline...
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Belco has announced significant year-on-year increases in its sale of electricity and gas during the second quarter.
The company's quarterly report said total kilowatt sales of electricity through May were 3.53 percent ahead of the same period in 200...
DATE: Jun 29, 2007
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