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Ace INA Insurance, part of the ACE Group of Companies, has opened a new Montreal office. The office will provide commercial property and casualty insurance for the Quebec and Eastern Canadian market.
?The opening of this new office in Montreal repres...
DATE: Nov 22, 2006
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Shares of Google Inc. passed $500 for the first time after profit almost doubled in the last quarter and analysts predicted the stock may gain another 20 percent.Google, which began trading at $85 a share in August, 2004, joins...
DATE: Nov 22, 2006
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange index fell almost 50 points as Butterfield Bank and insurer BF&M both fell.
The index closed down 46.54 points to 4,762.26 on moderate volume of 8,218 shares worth $406,364.
Butterfield fell 50 cents to $55 on...
DATE: Nov 22, 2006
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Hedge fund administrator Olympia Capital is the latest Bermuda company to establish a back office in Halifax as the Canadian city continues to build its position as a financial centre.
And New York-based Citco Group, which has a substantial Bermuda o...
DATE: Nov 22, 2006
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Reach for the top — and don’t eliminate choices too soon or worry about the myth of balance.
That’s the message successful female executives are telling young women in school and in the workplace. For years, many ambitious women were ducking criticis...
DATE: Nov 22, 2006
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Bermuda-based reinsurers saw their their 2006 net income soar to $5 billion and their combined ratios plummet and after a relatively mild hurricane season, according to a recent report by Fitch Ratings.
But it warned that the likelihood of lower rate...
DATE: Nov 22, 2006
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It is better to give than to receive, and many Bermuda businesses do just that at Christmas, setting aside a portion of their sales for charity.
One charity that is benefiting is the Cornerstone Foundation, the one-year-old charitable arm of Cornerst...
DATE: Nov 22, 2006
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LONDON (Reuters) — The London Stock Exchange has been left with few options to defend itself from Nasdaq Stock Markets Inc.'s unwanted attentions after British financial markets broker ICAP's decision not to pursue fresh merger talks, analysts said y...
DATE: Nov 22, 2006
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) ? Lazard Ltd., the investment bank run by Bruce Wasserstein, plans to sell 12 million shares ? half by the company and the rest by current and former managing directors ? to repay debt and make investments.
Total proceeds would b...
DATE: Nov 22, 2006
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Overuse of the Internet for personal matters by employees has always been a problem for companies ever since the advent of the technology. Now studies indicate that persistent Internet use may be a sign of a larger problem that managers may have to t...
DATE: Nov 22, 2006
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