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The Pickled Onion restaurant is to close for at least two months to undergo a “night-and-day” transformation, say its owners Island Restaurant Group Ltd (IRG).
The New Year’s Eve celebrations will mark the end of the current interior design of the po...
DATE: Dec 29, 2006
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — US property casualty insurers used the lowest proportion of premiums for expenses and claims in two decades after losses plunged last quarter because of calmer weather.Insurers used 90.6 cents of every $1 in premiums collected ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street stalled yesterday after a battery of reports indicated the economy is stronger than expected and raised concerns that the Federal Reserve might be more aggressive about interest rates next year.There has been speculation i...
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange fell 0.39 percent yesterday as two banks lost value.
Bermuda Commercial Bank (BCB) fell 75 cents to close at $8.50 — a drop of 8.1 percent in the share price — as 300 shares traded. Meanwhile Butterfield Bank ...
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MUNICH (Bloomberg) — Munich Re forecasts more natural catastrophes will fuel “longer term” demand for reinsurance and support higher rates despite a calm hurricane season this year.The world’s second-biggest reinsurer estimates worldwide losses on ca...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — US existing home sales rose in November for a second straight month and consumer confidence hit an eight-month high in December, according to reports yesterday showing the economy ending the year on a solid note.Other reports s...
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — With one blow, Mother Nature triggered the largest telecommunications outage in years, cutting off or slowing telephone and Internet traffic in Asia from Beijing to Bangkok.A powerful earthquake off the southern tip of Taiwan la...
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What can we expect in the way of technological advances in the coming year? It is certainly still a Microsoft world for the business and home desk computer user. I hope you managed to hold off on buying a new computer with a Microsoft operating syste...
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The owners of the Horizons and Cottages resort and the Coral Beach and Tennis Club have announced plans to offer fractional ownership of proposed new luxury cottages.
Rumours have been rife that the Wardman family has been planning to sell off the tw...
DATE: Dec 29, 2006
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Bermuda-based Paris Re Holdings Ltd. has completed the purchase of AXA Re, the reinsurance arm of France’s AXA Group.
Paris Re is headed by Hans-Peter Gerhardt, formerly chief executive officer of AXA Re and AXA retains a 3.4 percent stake in the Ham...
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