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LONDON (Bloomberg) — Old Mutual Plc, Britain's third-biggest insurer, said nine-month profit missed estimates because of currency movements and one-time charges in the US, South Africa and Sweden. The stock dropped the most in more than three years.O...
DATE: Nov 29, 2006
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It’s painful enough when an employer rejects you. But some add insult to injury by stealing material you prepared to promote your candidacy.
How should you cope?
There’s no surefire cure, as Vincent A. Gaglione Jr. learned. While jobless in spring, 2...
DATE: Nov 29, 2006
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The Bermuda Foundation for Insurance Studies has joined forces with a local actuarial consulting and reinsurance brokerage company to give awards to students who pass their actuarial exams.
BFIS said the awards, sponsored by Ordinance Holdings Ltd., ...
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For the West, the threat from Moscow was supposed to end with the collapse of the Soviet Union 15 years ago. But Russia’s growing energy clout is generating renewed cause for anxiety.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, set up in the early days o...
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XL Capital Ltd. plans to sell as much as $300 million in preferred shares to support a new reinsurance vehicle.
Separately, the company said chief financial officer Jerry de St. Paer will retire next year.
XL plans to sell $200 million to $300 milli...
DATE: Nov 28, 2006
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index dropped more than 20 points as two stocks retreated in light but active trading.
The Index fell 21.41 points or 0.44 percent to 4,810.29 as Butterfield Bank fell 25 cents to $56 on volume of just 323 sha...
DATE: Nov 28, 2006
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LONDON (Reuters) — One in five British companies has relocated some of their activities overseas and a third are considering it because of gripes over tax, according to a Confederation of British Industry poll published yesterday.Britain’s biggest bu...
DATE: Nov 28, 2006
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XL Capital Ltd. plans to sell as much as $300 million in preferred shares to support a new reinsurance vehicle.
Separately, the company said chief financial officer Jerry de St. Paer will retire next year.
XL plans to sell $200 million to $300 milli...
DATE: Nov 28, 2006
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NEW YORK (Reuters) — US stocks ended slightly higher yesterday, as fresh record highs in shares of aircraft maker Boeing Co. and Web search leader Google Inc. outweighed rising oil prices.Trading was light before the Thanksgiving holiday, but as crud...
DATE: Nov 28, 2006
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TORONTO (Reuters) — The Toronto Stock Exchange’s main index took its deepest dive since November 1 yesterday, as nervousness about the strength of the US economy prompted investors to pare last week’s record-breaking buildup.The S&P/TSX composite ind...
DATE: Nov 28, 2006
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