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HONG KONG (Reuters) ? Hong Kong-based luxury hotel group Mandarin Oriental International Ltd reported a 13 percent fall in annual profit yesterday, but said it hoped to benefit from signs of recovery in the travel sector.
The Bermuda-registered compa...
DATE: Feb 25, 2004
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When Paula Cox strode into Parliament on Friday she was clutching her father's tattered old briefcase ? a briefcase that was holding its fifth Budget.
And she knew fine well she was stepping into formidable shoes, those of her late father Eugene Cox,...
DATE: Feb 25, 2004
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange index dipped for the second day running after BF&M stock had some of its value shaved off the price.
The stock fell from $16.00 to $15.50 on trading of just 100 shares. Bank of Butterfield traded unchanged at ...
DATE: Feb 25, 2004
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Minister of Finance Paula Cox will personally spearhead a new campaign of economic diplomacy with trips to Washington already planned and the prospect of a beefing up lobbying in Washington.
Bermuda is constantly under attack from the US politicians ...
DATE: Feb 25, 2004
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Bermuda is in danger of becoming a "one company town" with too much focus on reinsurance, according to Scott Lines, managing director of LOM (Holdings) Ltd.
In his report to shareholders on the year ended December 31, 2003, which saw profits soar fro...
DATE: Feb 24, 2004
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An American right-wing economist has come out with guns blazing in support of Bermuda and slamming presidential hopeful Senator John Kerry for his anti-Bermuda rhetoric.
Daniel Mitchell, the Washington-based Heritage Foundation's chief expert on tax ...
DATE: Feb 24, 2004
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Retailers have had too good a year to merit getting a tax break, according to Minister of Finance Paula Cox.
Speaking to the Chamber of Commerce at a breakfast meeting yesterday Ms Cox said that while she knew that retailers felt they had been overlo...
DATE: Feb 24, 2004
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KeyTech Ltd., the parent company of BTC and Logic, announced it is a minority shareholder in a new telecommunications company in the Cayman Islands called WestTel Ltd.
WestTel is licensed in the Cayman Islands to provide local and long-distance telep...
DATE: Feb 24, 2004
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OSLO (Bloomberg) ? Frontline Ltd., the world?s biggest oil tanker company by capacity, said on Friday that banks have underwritten a $1.06 billion loan as part of a plan to spin off its ships in a new company.
The loan will help Frontline?s Ship Fina...
DATE: Feb 23, 2004
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) -- Atlas Copco AB, the second-largest building-equipment rental company in North America, agreed last week to buy a drilling-machine business from Ingersoll-Rand Co. for $225 million in cash to help tap growing orders from mining...
DATE: Feb 23, 2004
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