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SINGAPORE (Bloomberg) ? SeaDrill Ltd., an oil-rig owner controlled by Norwegian billionaire John Fredriksen, said it had ordered a second semi-submersible drilling rig worth $390 million from Jurong Shipyard in Singapore to take advantage of increasi...
DATE: Aug 19, 2005
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Axis Capital, a Bermuda insurance company, said yesterday that a unit of Marsh & McLennan, one of its founding shareholders, has sold 1.85 million shares in a block trade.
Merrill Lynch is handling the sale for Marsh Risk Capital, a unit of leading b...
DATE: Aug 19, 2005
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UnumProvident Corp. said it will unwind a 1996 finite risk transaction between Unum Life Insurance Co. of America and Bermuda-based Centre Life Reinsurance Ltd.
A Unum spokesman told Business Insurance's website that the move, under which the Chattan...
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index yesterday lost 3.30 points to close at 3,614.44.
The Index's decline was led by Argus Insurance Company Ltd., which lost 25 cents and closed at $26.25 after investors traded 13,599 shares.
Butterfield Ba...
DATE: Aug 19, 2005
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NEW YORK ? Turning Tyco International Ltd.'s operations around is taking longer than some investors had hoped, but the reshaping of its balance sheet continues.
Since its spectacular fall from grace in 2002, Tyco, which operates health care, fire and...
DATE: Aug 19, 2005
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A story in Wednesday?s business section misreported the value of AIG shares held by Starr International Co. Ltd., a Bermuda-based private company that is headed by former AIG chairman Maurice (Hank) Greenberg. Starr holds about 12 percent of AIG?s to...
DATE: Aug 19, 2005
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Dominica has endorsed Digicel?s plans to acquire Cingular Wireless? operations in the Caribbean country, an official said yesterday.
Full approval is expected at a meeting of the Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority Council of Ministers tom...
DATE: Aug 19, 2005
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A writ has been filed between Ann Bartelson Callaghan (nee Beach) and Roger J.B. Beach.
A writ has been filed in the matter of the Supreme Court Act, 1905 and in the matter of Jonathan David Gwynfor Betts.
A writ has been filed in the matter of...
DATE: Aug 19, 2005
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A crafty mother and daughter team have brought a full-scale yarn shop back to Bermuda with the opening of Needles, etc. in St. George?s.
Wendy Bassett and her mother Gaynelle Outerbridge offer everything from English needle point and cross stitch kit...
DATE: Aug 19, 2005
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ZURICH (Bloomberg) ? Zurich Financial Services AG, the biggest Swiss insurer, said second-quarter profit rose 20 percent, topping analyst estimates, helped by investment income gains and higher premiums.
Net income in the three months through June in...
DATE: Aug 19, 2005
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