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Having seen Linux slowly eat away at its server market, Microsoft has struck back by attempting to show why Windows still matters to businesses.
The company has published figures from IDC Research showing that on a unit basis, Windows Server is the m...
DATE: Mar 29, 2006
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Investors who entered the insurance market to take advantage of anticipated rate increases following last year?s hurricanes must diversify or face significant losses in the 2006 hurricane season.
?With an active hurricane season forecast for 2006, in...
DATE: Mar 29, 2006
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NEW YORK (AP) Shares of luxury hotel company Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. rose yesterday after an analyst said Wall Street is underestimating the earnings potential of Orient?s real estate projects.
The Bermuda-based company?s shares rose $2.13, or 5....
DATE: Mar 29, 2006
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More than a decade ago Austrian businessman Wolfgang Flottl was busy presiding over a Bermuda-based trading empire. Today authorities in his home country are contemplating issuing an arrest warrant for the financier, as they scrutinise if high-risk t...
DATE: Mar 29, 2006
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index edged up 6.32 points yesterday to close at 4,388.21.
On a moderate day of trading Belco led the advances, gaining 50 cents to close at $39 on volume of 2,300 shares and BF&M rose 25 cents to close at $17...
DATE: Mar 29, 2006
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Major equity markets have registered some pretty good performances so far, this year, and it may be time for a breather. There are worries about earnings growth and the risk of rising bond yields making stocks less appealing.
Europe has led the pack,...
DATE: Mar 29, 2006
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Lines Overseas Management has told a US court that it will be unable to disclose certain information requested by an American subpoena because of a Bermuda Supreme Court injunction.
For almost two years, LOM has been engaged in a court battle with th...
DATE: Mar 29, 2006
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) ? Zurich Financial Services AG, Switzerland's biggest insurer, agreed to pay $153 million to settle bid-rigging and accounting probes in New York, Illinois and Connecticut.
The company, the No. 3 commercial insurer in the US, wil...
DATE: Mar 28, 2006
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) ? Insurance claims could increase as much as $47 billion in the event of a bird-flu pandemic killing 609,000 people in the US and Europe, Fitch Ratings said.
If a pandemic killed 400,000 people in Europe, insurance claims would i...
DATE: Mar 28, 2006
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) ? The cost of insuring ships may rise following a series of accidents in the past week, according to Marsh & McLennan Cos. and Aon Corp., the world's largest insurance brokerages.
A fire on the may have damaged one-third of the 5...
DATE: Mar 28, 2006
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