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Microsoft?s long-awaited new operating system Vista was launched in the US yesterday and it should be available in Island retail stores by as soon as next Monday.
The product, the first new Windows operating system to be created by the world?s bigges...
DATE: Jan 31, 2007
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canada’s Standard & Poor’s/TSX Composite Index rose to its second-highest close ever, led by energy companies such as EnCana Corp., as colder weather and planned output cuts by the OrganiSation of Petroleum Exporting Countries c...
DATE: Jan 31, 2007
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Bermuda-based XL Capital Ltd. has said it will pay a quarterly dividend of 38 cents per share.
The dividend will be distributed on March 30 to shareholders of record on March 15.
XL will also pay a dividend of 50 cents per share on April 2 to its Ser...
DATE: Jan 30, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks barely budged yesterday, ending narrowly mixed after yields on the 30-year Treasury note briefly hit 5 percent and investors grew skittish a day ahead of the Federal Reserve’s first meeting of the year.After a volatile week in ...
DATE: Jan 30, 2007
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Want to predict if 2007 is going to be a bad one for hurricanes? You might as well toss a coin.
It probably wasn’t the message staff of Validus Re and invited guests were hoping for as they listened to Dr. Kerry Emanuel, a leading voice in the scienc...
DATE: Jan 30, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices fell by more than a dollar to $54 a barrel Monday, after a rally lost steam and traders took profits, brushing off worries about OPEC reducing production further.
Prices had rallied above $55 a barrel last week, largely due...
DATE: Jan 30, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — “Wow” hasn’t tended to be a big part of Bill Gates’ vocabulary, but to hear him speak in the hours before Microsoft Corp.’s planned launch of the long-awaited Vista operating system, you’d never know it.“This ‘Wow’ thing is a great wa...
DATE: Jan 30, 2007
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Concern that lengthening delays in the planning process and issuing of building permits are now impacting the Island’s construction sector needs to be addressed urgently with an overhaul of bureaucratic procedures, according to Shadow Environment Min...
DATE: Jan 30, 2007
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DATE: Jan 30, 2007
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Bermuda’s Everest Re Group Ltd. last night announced record 12-month net income of $840.8 million for 2006 — a billion-dollar improvement from the hurricane-induced losses of the previous year.
Everest was the first of Bermuda’s major reinsurers to p...
DATE: Jan 30, 2007
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