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Deputy Premier and Finance Minister Paula Cox, US Consul General Gregory Slayton and a number of leading business CEOs were invited to tour Allied World Assurance Company’s new offices in Hamilton.
The company this week revealed a new company logo as...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) — US stocks rebounded yesterday as hard-hit financial shares recovered on the view that fears of the subprime mortgage problem spreading were overblown and had left stocks looking cheap.A rise in oil prices led to broad gains among...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Citigroup Inc. said yesterday it won't raise its $13.4 billion takeover bid for Japan's Nikko Cordial Corp. further and expressed confidence the offer will succeed.The cash offer of 1,700 yen per share expires April 26, Citigro...
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks erased declines to close little changed as energy companies rose, led by EnCana Corp., on higher prices for natural gas and crude oil.Shares of industrial and materials companies Canadian National Railway Co. and...
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A $6.3 billion merger between Bermuda-based PXRE Group and Texas-based Argonaut Group will result in a new holding company called Argo Group domiciled in Bermuda.
The new company will control all PXRE’s insurance subsidiaries including the newly form...
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CHICAGO (Bloomberg) — Jury selection in the fraud and racketeering trial of Conrad Black, the former Hollinger International Inc. chairman, began with the questioning of 27 prospective jurors in a federal courtroom in Chicago.Black, 62, sat at a tabl...
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An improvement in the price of Argus shares was the only movement on the Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index as it moved 17.32 points (0.35 percent) higher to close at 4,997.38.
Insurance group Argus saw its shares increase in value by 50 cent...
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Hiscox's reinsurance staff don't like cricket ... they love it.
The 2005 Bermuda start-up has its name proudly emblazoned across the national cricket team's World Cup strip after stepping in to a gap left by a sponsorship rule that forbade Bank of Be...
DATE: Mar 15, 2007
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DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Corp. accomplished something in the fourth quarter of 2006 that domestic automakers have been unable to do for some time: it reported a profit.Now comes the hard part — repeating that success. The company’s chief financi...
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Hurricane-force European windstorm Kyrill and a space satellite that exploded after crashing back onto its floating sea launch platform have left Flagstone Reinsurance with an estimated bill of between $22 million and $38 million in the opening month...
DATE: Mar 15, 2007
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