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NEW YORK (Dow Jones/AP) ? Catastrophe bonds have traditionally been linked to the risk of natural disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes in highly developed regions.
But the market is expanding as insurers look to offload their exposure to thes...
DATE: Sep 27, 2006
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Today is our final look at the basics of Internet Access, and we?re going to continue our look at conventional methods of accessing it, and then ask: ?Where next will Internet access go??
Last time we concluded by looking at the first, oldest and slo...
DATE: Sep 27, 2006
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Bacardi Ltd., the world?s biggest rum maker, yesterday offered to buy New Zealand vodka and gin producer 42 Below Ltd. for NZ$138 million ($91 million) in cash.
Bacardi offered 77 New Zealand cents a share for 42 Below, 35 percent more than yesterday...
DATE: Sep 27, 2006
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Former Italian Cabinet Minister Lucio Stanca has been re-appointed to PartnerRe's board of directors.
Mr. Stanca previously served on PartnerRe's Board from May 12, 1998 until January, 2005. His resignation was the result of an Italian law that impos...
DATE: Sep 27, 2006
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OSLO (Bloomberg) ? Shares of Frontline Ltd., the world?s biggest oil-tanker operator by capacity, rose the most in eight weeks after the company said the sale of a supertanker will make a profit of about $59 million.
Bermuda-based Frontline sold the ...
DATE: Sep 27, 2006
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Securities and Exchange Commission said today it brought securities fraud charges against three former executives of reinsurer RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.
The SEC said it charged former chief executive James Stanard, former...
DATE: Sep 27, 2006
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Financial losses caused by terrorists using nuclear, biological, chemical or radiological weapons are not insurable, and it's unlikely the private market would ever expand to cover them, a report by the US Government Accountabi...
DATE: Sep 27, 2006
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index remained unchanged yesterday to close at 4,904.69.
On a quiet day on the Exchange, just 900 Bermuda Container Line shares changed hands to close unchanged at $13.50.
The total value of the shares bought ...
DATE: Sep 27, 2006
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I am writing this article using Writer, part of the slick new OpenOffice.org suite, which by the way is free and now rivals Microsoft Office in terms of features.
Microsoft charges about $499 list for its product suite, which includes Word, Exel, Pow...
DATE: Sep 27, 2006
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Ahmed Elamin
Leigh-Anne Shaw of the global markets department at HSBC Bank of Bermuda is the company?s latest Bermudian rising star.
Miss Shaw, 26, is currently in the middle of a six month learning stint at the HSBC head office on Fifth Avenue in New York. She i...
DATE: Sep 26, 2006
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