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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street advanced sharply, sending the Standard & Poor's 500 index to its first record close in more than seven years, as investors grew more confident the Federal Reserve might cut interest rates in the second half of the year. Th...
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Frontline Ltd., the world's biggest oil-tanker company by carrying capacity, said first-quarter profit fell 26 percent after ship-hire rates dropped because of OPEC production cuts and the warmest winter on record.N...
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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Protesters besieged a major pipeline centre feeding a Royal Dutch Shell PLC oil export terminal in Nigeria, forcing the company to suspend exports of 150,000 barrels a day, a company official said yesterday.The protesters tamper...
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The "hard" property insurance market that started in 2006 has ended as premiums fall and coverage broadens, insurance broker Willis Group said in a report released yesterday.
But in areas exposed to catastrophes such as hurricanes, floods and earthqu...
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LONDON (Bloomberg) — The UK government will sell about $2.56 billion ($5.1 billion) of shares in British Energy Group Plc to pay for the decommissioning costs of nuclear reactors owned by the country's biggest power generator.The sale of as many as 4...
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St. John's University's School of Risk Management (SRM), a division of The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, will host its fifth annual "Gathering of Friends, Educators and Students" today at the Coral Beach and Tennis Club.
The event was made poss...
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Business people were yesterday grappling with the problem of planning for next Tuesday's public holiday to mark the funeral of Dame Lois Browne Evans.
The Cabinet decided at its meeting on Tuesday, following the death of former Progressive Labour Par...
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Jonathan Kent
The risk of skills shortages, the loss of key personnel and succession issues are seen as the most significant threats to the operations of global companies, according to a survey of risk managers.
Human capital risk is now seen as more significant t...
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For an Island as reliant on internet connectivity as Bermuda the advent of deliberate cyberspace attacks of a magnitude that can virtually cripple a country — as experienced by Estonia earlier this month — is worrying.
Whether such an attack could be...
DATE: May 31, 2007
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HOUSTON (Bloomberg) — Marathon Oil Corp., the fourth- largest US energy company, said appraisal drilling on its Droshky discovery in the Gulf of Mexico indicates a recoverable deposit equivalent to 80 million to 90 million barrels of crude.Production...
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