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American International Assurance Company (Bermuda) Ltd.'s (AIA Bermuda) 'A+' Insurer Financial Strength (IFS) rating currently on Rating Watch Evolving has been withdrawn by Fitch Ratings.
AIA-Bermuda's parent, AIA Group Ltd. (AIA Group), recently co...
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SHANGHAI (AP) — General Motors Co. says it is set to sell more than two million vehicles in China this year after posting record sales for October.
GM and its ventures in China sold 199,641 vehicles last month, up nearly 20 percent from the year befo...
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission has opened an investigation into the award of a Eurostar train order to German group Siemens after a complaint by French company Alstom, an EU source said.
The EU executive began a preliminary four-week in...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp raised its full-year profit forecast, boosting investor confidence its turnaround plan has ushered in a new phase of growth and sending shares three percent higher.
Rising prices and improving traffic in its sto...
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P-Tech, a division of the Phoenix Stores, has announced the launch of its newly-redesigned website, www.ptech.bm.
Under the creative direction of Ralph Richardson, of Maven Concepts and Tina Adderley, head of marketing of the Phoenix Stores the websi...
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Maiden Holdings Ltd. boosted its profits by 23.6 percent during the third quarter of 2010 as the company seeks to diversify with the acquisition of auto insurer GMAC International Insurance Services Ltd. by the end of this month.
The Bermuda-based in...
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index closed at its highest level in more than two years yesterday as commodity prices soared in reaction to the US Federal Reserve's plan to stimulate the US economy.
The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX comp...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — China's ability to censor Internet users may diminish as more of its people get online through mobile phones and other devices, Google Inc. chief executive officer Eric Schmidt said.
"A billion phones that are trying to express...
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Bermuda accounts for approximately 50 percent of the reinsurance sold to Florida insurance companies and most of that money never returns to the state, according to a report which appeared on the Florida Realtors website.
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LONDON (AP) — The British government intervened yesterday to investigate the offer by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to buy full control of satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting, a bid which has drawn strong opposition from competing news organ...
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