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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese insurer NKSJ Holdings said it could spend more than $2.4 billion earmarked for overseas acquisitions over a three-year period - and Bermuda companies are among its potential targets.
Japan's No.3 property-casualty insurer i...
DATE: Sep 02, 2010
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Bermuda has the third highest salary for expatriates behind the likes of Russia and Singapore, according to a study by HSBC.
The Expat Economic survey, part of HSBC Bank International's Expat Explorer Survey of 4,100 expats from 100 countries, ranked...
DATE: Sep 02, 2010
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BERLIN (AP) — Germany's Cabinet has formally approved a plan to save some 80 billion euros ($101 billion) over the next four years, moving the package of benefit cuts and new levies closer to realisation.
Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said that...
DATE: Sep 02, 2010
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Devonshire Industries Ltd. rose 27.65 percent ($1.95) on The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) yesterday.
The owner of Bermuda Paint traded 900 shares to close at $9.
The only other trader was Butterfield Bank, which saw 3,230 shares change hands, but its...
DATE: Sep 02, 2010
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washington (Bloomberg) — Richard Fuld, former chief executive officer of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., said regulators relied on "flawed information" in denying his company aid that was extended to competitors.
"Other firms were hurt by their plumme...
DATE: Sep 02, 2010
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - The chief executive of China Strategic Holdings Ltd said yesterday that he did not understand the decision by Taiwan's regulators to block the $2.2 billion agreement to buy American International Group Inc's (AIG) Nan Shan Life ...
DATE: Sep 02, 2010
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Digicel has announced it has reached the significant milestone of 11 million customers across its 32 markets worldwide.
Since launching in Jamaica nine-and-a-half years ago, the mobile phone provider, now domiciled in Bermuda, has grown rapidly throu...
DATE: Sep 02, 2010
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OSLO (Bloomberg) — John Fredriksen, the billionaire chairman of the world's biggest operator of supertankers - Bermuda-based Frontline Ltd. - said there "won't be much money to earn" in shipping in the next two to three years.
Daily rates for superta...
DATE: Sep 02, 2010
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index notched its highest close in more than 15 weeks yesterday as US and overseas economic data stoked optimism about global recovery.
Toronto took its cue from world stock markets, which rallied on stronger ...
DATE: Sep 02, 2010
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LONDON (Reuters) - The reinsurance sector is vulnerable to a significant insured loss from the Atlantic storm season as their reserve capital has been used to offset low premiums, Fitch Ratings said, as Hurricane Earl threatens to hit land.
As Earl l...
DATE: Sep 02, 2010
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