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BF&M Limited reported record half year results yesterday with a 169 percent increase in earnings of $8.9 million for the period ended June 30, 2005 compared with $3.3 million for the first six months in 2004.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Bermuda-registered Online graphic design company VistaPrint Inc., may offer up to 10 million shares for between $9 and $11 a share in an initial public offering according to a regulatory filing on Wednesday.
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange yesterday fell eight points to 3,631.30 as the Island's largest telecoms company, KeyTech, saw its share price slip by 3.6 percent.
KeyTech investors traded 347 shares while pushing the trading price down ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Hurricane Katrina may help insurance companies raise the premiums they charge clients, and could bring new companies into the disaster area to exploit opportunities for more profit, industry analysts said.
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Bermuda-based PartnerRe Ltd. estimates that the total industry insured loss for Hurricane Katrina will be between $30 billion and $35 billion.
And it said its share of the claims will be no more than ten percent, or $348 million, of the company's $3....
DATE: Sep 09, 2005
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(Bloomberg) Intelsat Ltd., the satellite provider to the US military, plans the biggest US junk bond sale in 16 years as it takes on $3.2 billion of debt in a leveraged buyout of PanAmSat Holding Corp.
The Bermuda-based company said it may sell $4.2...
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Rosemont Reinsurance Ltd. could see its ratings downgraded by A.M. Best because of concerns that Hurricane Katrina losses, and growing claims from last year?s Hurricane Ivan, could undermine the Bermuda reinsurance company?s financial position.
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CableVision has launched a multi-room DVR service that lets viewers simultaneously watch and control different recorded programmes on up to four televisions in their home.
DVRs were first made popular by TiVo which pioneered the technology to allow c...
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Butterfield Bank was recognised for the fourth year running as Bermuda?s top bank by The Banker, a prestigious UK banking publication.
In an announcement yesterday, the Island?s oldest financial institution said it had been chosen after the magazine?...
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Bermuda bookworms can get a quick fix, and for less, with Mailboxes Unlimited announcing yesterday that its US courier service has slashed the shipping rate for books to $4.25 per pound.
Mailboxes, a company that offers a diverse range of services ? ...
DATE: Sep 09, 2005
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