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You might be forgiven for thinking that the story of Ironshore Insurance, the latest addition to Bermuda?s Class 4 register, was a familiar one. A billion dollars of clean capital, managed by proven industry talent, filling in a gap in the property c...
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Investors are being offered the chance to put some money into in the fast-growing Russian economy with the launch of a new fund just listed on the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX).
The FMG Russia Fund Ltd. has been set up by Hamilton-based Apex Fund Serv...
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) ? Apple Computer Inc. unveiled an eagerly-anticipated iPod mobile phone with a touch-screen yesterday, priced at $599 for 8 gigabytes of memory, pushing the company?s shares up as much as 8.5 percent.
Chief executive Steve Job...
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GULFPORT (Bloomberg) — State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. said it may resolve hundreds of lawsuits from Mississippi policyholders whose homes were damaged by Hurricane Katrina.“We continue to talk and to search for ways to bring these events ...
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of goodies are tumbling out of the annual technology fest at Las Vegas known as the Consumer Electronics Show.
Bill Gates (pictured) opened it up with a talk about Windows Vista, due to go on sale to home buyers at the end of January. Windows Vista, ...
DATE: Jan 10, 2007
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) Index dropped fractionally yesterday as just two issues traded.
Most of the activity centred on Butterfield Bank Ltd., as 2,900 shares changed hands. But the Bank?s share price closed unchanged at $56.75...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Richards in a West Hollywood comedy club and the authorities in Iraq who executed Saddam Hussein painfully learned that the prying eyes of television news can belong to anyone who carries a cell phone.Saddam’s execution and Ri...
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Bermuda-based Paris Re is reportedly interested in buying Swiss rival Converium.
Paris Re, which was created in late 2006 after France-based insurer AXA Group sold its reinsurance unit to private equity investors surrounding Stone Point Capital, last...
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Bermuda law firm Appleby Hunter Bailhache is to open an office on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius to provide its clients with better access to the emerging markets of Africa, Asia and India.
Appleby (Mauritius International) Ltd., in the island?...
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