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Small construction outfits are to be given help, guidance and support to improve their ability to compete in the Island’s current booming construction sector.
A year in the planning, Bermuda’s “small business construction incubator” has now gone live...
DATE: Feb 08, 2007
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Five months of falling inflation ended in December when the annual rise in the cost of living climbed to 3.4 percent.
Figures released by Government yesterday, showed the figure jumped from November’s 2.6 percent rate.
Rent was the biggest contributo...
DATE: Feb 08, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Willis Group Holdings Ltd., the world’s third-largest insurance broker, said fourth-quarter profit more than doubled on a $71 million tax credit.Net income rose to $148 million, or 94 cents a share, from $55 million, or 35 cent...
DATE: Feb 08, 2007
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Former UK senior crown prosecutor Rod Michelmore, who has been employed in the litigation department of barristers and attorney’s Marshall Diel and Myers since July 2002, has been invited to be a partner in the firm.
South African-born Mr. Michelmore...
DATE: Feb 08, 2007
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LONDON (AP) — Declining oil prices and mounting safety spending sent BP PLC’s fourth-quarter profit down 22 percent to a two-year low, the oil company said yesterday.Following a series of high-profile mishaps including a deadly refinery blast in Texa...
DATE: Feb 07, 2007
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Bermuda reinsurer RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. will pay a $15 million fine to settle an investigation into “sham” accounting, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said yesterday.
The SEC accused the company of using accounting trickery thro...
DATE: Feb 07, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street eked out a modest advance yesterday after investors found little motivation in remarks by Federal Reserve officials and also shrugged off a warning from chip maker National Semiconductor Inc.Major indexes squeaked by with ...
DATE: Feb 07, 2007
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After my initial review of Office 2007 was published last week a reader wrote to say how overwhelmed she feels about having to constantly update software... expensive software. She uses Microsoft Office 2000 a lot as she publishes a quarterly newslet...
DATE: Feb 07, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Tyco International Ltd., the world’s biggest maker of electronic connectors and security systems, said first-quarter earnings fell 7.6 percent on tax, legal and debt costs to split the conglomerate into three inde...
DATE: Feb 07, 2007
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CHICAGO (Bloomberg) — Nabors Industries Ltd., an oil driller whose shares surged last week on buyout speculation, said fourth-quarter profit rose 31 percent to $276 million as rig demand surged.Net income increased to 97 cents from $210.6 million, or...
DATE: Feb 07, 2007
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