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Members of the public will be invited to have their say on Government’s proposals for the future of the telecommunications industry in a public meeting on Thursday evening.
But some telecommunications companies have asked for the meeting to be put ba...
DATE: Feb 06, 2007
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BEIJING (AP) — US drug maker Pfizer has lost a round in its legal battles with Chinese rivals over rights to names for its popular anti-impotence drug Viagra, a court employee reported yesterday.Pfizer and local drug makers are struggling over the Ch...
DATE: Feb 06, 2007
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Wary US employers slowed hiring in January, pushing the unemployment rate to a four-month high of 4.6 percent and giving jobseekers a bumpy start to the year.Still, the Labour Department’s employment report on Friday suggested the j...
DATE: Feb 05, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — The uncertainty that has at times waylaid Wall Street in the new year might be less of a factor in the coming week now that investors have been placated by generally good corporate earnings and upbeat comments from the Federal Reserve...
DATE: Feb 05, 2007
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XL Capital Ltd. and Axis Capital Ltd. became the latest Bermuda reinsurers to announce estimated losses of tens of millions of dollars in claims resulting from European storm Kyrill.
XL estimated its pre-tax losses due to Kyrill to be in the range of...
DATE: Feb 05, 2007
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Famous for his contraire approach to investments and looking in the opposite direction to “the herd” for money-making investment opportunities, Swiss-born Dr. Marc Faber delivered his brand of wisdom to an audience of money managers during a stop-off...
DATE: Feb 05, 2007
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The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) Index climbed just over one percentage point last week to break through the 5,000-point barrier.
Driving those gains was the Bermuda Commercial Bank (BCB), whose share price rose 25.63 percent ($2.55) ...
DATE: Feb 05, 2007
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Accenture Ltd. is going Indian.
The Bermuda-based consulting firm last week said it would supplement the 27,000 workers it already has in India by hiring an additional 8,000 people there by August 31.
India will soon be Accenture’s biggest employee b...
DATE: Feb 05, 2007
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Bermuda-based White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd. reported a net income of $673 million for 2006 — more than double the 2005 figure.
Net income for the quarter was $299 million, compared to $33 million for the fourth quarter of 2005.
Those results r...
DATE: Feb 05, 2007
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The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) Index climbed just over one percentage point last week to break through the 5,000-point barrier.
Driving those gains was the Bermuda Commercial Bank (BCB), whose share price rose 25.63 percent ($2.55) ...
DATE: Feb 05, 2007
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