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Fitch Ratings on Friday upgraded Bermuda?s long-term foreign currency issuer default rating to ?AA+? from ?AA?. The outlook remains stable. The country ceiling has been upgraded to ?AAA? from ?AA+?.
?The upgrade reflects Bermuda?s credible commitment...
DATE: Aug 14, 2006
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Fourteen of the world's 35 largest reinsurance companies in 2005 ? two in five, or 40 percent ? are Bermuda companies, rating agency A.M. Best has reported. Several more of the top companies had Bermuda operations, but were not headquartered here.
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DATE: Aug 14, 2006
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index shook off recent declines to soar to an all- time high yesterday, jumping 233.38 points or 4.75 percent to close at 5,149.04 as Belco shares moved up.
On a quiet day of trading on the Exchange, Belco, wh...
DATE: Aug 12, 2006
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Have you ever bought anything on eBay? The online auction house is an excellent way to buy certain things, such as DVDs and books, often at knock-down prices. I say ?is an excellent way?, but that should read ?was an excellent way?. A once-supremely ...
DATE: Aug 12, 2006
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NEW YORK (AP) ? There?s a legend on Wall Street that Hugh L. McColl Jr., Bank of America Corp.?s storied former chairman, used to keep an ?enemies list? tucked into his pocket ? marching orders for who the bank must topple to become the biggest in th...
DATE: Aug 12, 2006
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Tremont Capital Management Inc.?s Asset Flow Report for the Second Quarter of 2006 showed a $38.3 billion net inflow across all investment styles for the same period with fixed income arbitrage increasing at the fastest rate, growing by 7.28 percent....
DATE: Aug 12, 2006
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It turns out there are a lot of easy, low-cost or no-cost things you can do to conserve energy at peak usage times, especially during the heat waves that put so much strain electrical grids and can cause blackouts.
Air conditioning is one of the bigg...
DATE: Aug 12, 2006
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NEW YORK (AP) ? Building and running a small business often consumes most of an entrepreneur?s time, leaving little room for other pursuits. Yet many company owners decide to get an MBA, believing it will help them be better managers, marketers and b...
DATE: Aug 12, 2006
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LONDON ? While airlines and travel companies were dealt a sharp blow yesterday by the discovery of a terrorist plot aimed at trans-Atlantic flights, shares of companies that make surveillance and detection technologies were boosted by prospects of in...
DATE: Aug 11, 2006
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Transactions involving the Bank of Bermuda?s Isle of Man branch came under scrutiny last week as US Senate investigators probed an offshore scheme that allegedly allowed the billionaire backers of Bermuda-based life reinsurer Scottish Re Group Ltd. t...
DATE: Aug 11, 2006
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