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BEIJING (Bloomberg) — China’s insurance market expanded 14.4 percent to 564.1 billion yuan ($73 billion) last year as the world’s fastest-growing major economy generated demand for insurance coverage, the regulator said.Insurance companies’ total ass...
DATE: Jan 22, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — The yen tumbled to the lowest in almost four years against the dollar, logging a second straight weekly loss, after the Bank of Japan left interest rates unchanged.The yen sank against all 16 major currencies and posted the big...
DATE: Jan 22, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Scottish Re Group Ltd., a life reinsurer which put itself up for sale after a surprise second-quarter loss, said it would hold a shareholders meeting in Hamilton on February 23 to vote on a previously announced buyout offer.The...
DATE: Jan 22, 2007
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GEOPOLITICAL risk isn’t a factor that is of primary concern in the daily decision-making of market participants. However, some institutional investors monitor it quite closely and have risk management plans in place should the scenario diverge from t...
DATE: Jan 22, 2007
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Axis Capital has announced a reorganisation of its insurance operations that the Bermuda-based insurer and reinsurer says will enhance its position as a “global leader” in specialty lines insurance.
As part of the reshuffle, Axis announced the appoin...
DATE: Jan 22, 2007
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I'd bet this has happened to you. You're driving somewhere, and a song you like comes on the radio, or you have a CD plugged in. You turn up the volume and let it rip. You might even sing along. The noise of the outside world is drowned out as you cr...
DATE: Jan 20, 2007
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HONESTLY, it was hard to hold back. Affirmation, that's what was felt when reading that Bermuda has the highest per capita gross domestic product in the world.
Not because of that spectacular achievement, but as most regular families trying to manage...
DATE: Jan 20, 2007
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The Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) Index declined 35 points yesterday to end the week almost exactly where it had started it.
Three issues traded and they all closed lower yesterday. Butterfield Bank Ltd. closed 25 cents (0.4 percent) d...
DATE: Jan 20, 2007
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Boeing Co. yesterday unveiled a redesigned interior for its largest passenger jet that aims to give air travellers what the planemaker says they want: to feel like they are flying.Boeing’s goal with the cabin of its new 747-8 Inte...
DATE: Jan 19, 2007
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GULFPORT (AP) — A Mississippi grand jury probing State Farm Insurance Co.’s handling of claims after Hurricane Katrina heard testimony this week from two sisters who turned over reams of internal claims records to investigators while they worked for ...
DATE: Jan 19, 2007
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