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NEW YORK (Reuters) — The 2006 hurricane season is ending on November 30 with US homeowners and insurers unscathed, but forecasters warn that the years ahead will not be so calm.While the first predictions for 2007 are due in early December, Risk Mana...
DATE: Nov 23, 2006
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Insurance group BF&M said yesterday its net income for the first nine months of the year dropped 5.4 percent, which the company attributed to start-up expenses for an international unit.
For the nine months to September 30, net income was $14.8 milli...
DATE: Nov 23, 2006
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Insurance group BF&M said yesterday its net income for the first nine months of the year dropped 5.4 percent, which the company attributed to start-up expenses for an international unit.
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DATE: Nov 23, 2006
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NEW YORK (Reuters) — AM Best Co., an insurance company rating agency, placed its ratings of HCC Insurance Holdings Inc. and its affiliates under review yesterday with negative implications, meaning they could be downgraded.A.M. Best cited HCC’s annou...
DATE: Nov 23, 2006
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TORONTO (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks fell from a record as energy producers including EnCana Corp. declined alongside oil and natural-gas prices. Raw-materials shares such as Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan retreated.“The Canadian market is hostage to ...
DATE: Nov 23, 2006
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Class of 2005 insurer Lancashire Holdings Ltd. yesterday predicted that trading conditions will be "attractive" in 2007 as strong prices for property and energy insurance continue.
But the insurer, formed by a group of Lloyd's of London veteran under...
DATE: Nov 23, 2006
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LONDON (Bloomberg) ? BW Offshore, which owns floating oil platforms, said third-quarter earnings more than tripled on increasing demand for its units.
Net income jumped to $11.1 million from $3.5 million in the third quarter of 2005, said BW Offshore...
DATE: Nov 23, 2006
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) ? Golar LNG Ltd., a Bermuda-based owner of liquefied-gas tankers, posted a third-quarter loss after a decline in interest rates.
The net loss was $5.9 million, or nine cents a share, compared with net income of $11 million, or 17...
DATE: Nov 23, 2006
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index closed unchanged yesterday, although more than $1 million worth of shares changed hands.
The Index held at 4,726.26 as 19,800 shares of Butterfield Bank and BF&M worth $1,077,967.75 were traded.
Butterfi...
DATE: Nov 23, 2006
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OSLO (Bloomberg) ? SeaDrill ASA, a Norwegian oil-rig company, may be looking to take over a US competitor after its planned share sale, Martin Huseby Karlsen, an analyst with DnB Nor Markets, said.
The company, run from Stavanger, Norway, will ask st...
DATE: Nov 23, 2006
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