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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks rose on takeover speculation, after a newspaper report that buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. has been in discussions with BCE Inc. about a bid. Shares pared gains after BCE said it’s in no such talks.A p...
DATE: Mar 30, 2007
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America’s biggest media liability underwriter is being bought by Axis Capital.
Kansas City-based Media/Professional Insurance provides insurance for media and entertainment companies to protect them against claims of slander, libel, and copyright inf...
DATE: Mar 30, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Willis Group Holdings Ltd., the world’s third-largest insurance broker, hired Adam Ciongoli as general counsel to oversee legal, compliance and audit responsibilities.“He’s more than just a lawyer,” Willis spokesman Daniel Prin...
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Power company Belco Holdings improved its earnings by $1.2 million despite encountering difficulties in its Bermuda Gas operation caused by moving its city centre store and a transition in its warehousing facility last year.
And the company also spen...
DATE: Mar 30, 2007
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Cruise operator and former rock singer Jimmy O'Connor has opened his $20,000 money market fund at Butterfield Bank, which he won after being judged the "Best of the Best" at the Visitor Industry Partnership Excellence Awards.
To win the award he had ...
DATE: Mar 30, 2007
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Appleby Hunter Bailhache will officially change its name to Appleby as of April 1.
When Appleby Spurling Hunter combined with Jersey-based Bailhache Labesse last year, the firm announced that they would use the combined name of Appleby Hunter Bailhac...
DATE: Mar 29, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s biggest publicly traded oil company, and four other US gas retailers must face a lawsuit accusing them of conspiring to drive up the price of gasoline, a federal judge ruled.Exxon, Marathon Oil Co...
DATE: Mar 29, 2007
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Bermuda’s burgeoning insurance market is at the heart of a global industry that helps to underpin the world economy.
It is one cog in a huge machine that incorporates companies in numerous cities around the world, from brokers and catastrophe modelle...
DATE: Mar 29, 2007
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NEW YORK (Reuters) — Bermuda, the island home of the world’s fourth-largest insurance market, may be too small for all its companies, analysts say.Bermuda, where 82 insurers opened up shop in 2006, has prospered over the last two decades as a haven f...
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When is a new restaurant not quite a new restaurant? When it changes its name, smartens up its interior and alters its menu every few weeks to give customers something fresh and different to taste.
That is what the former Monty’s diner in Pitts Bay R...
DATE: Mar 29, 2007
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