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MEXICO CITY (Bloomberg) - Nokia Oyj, AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. are urging the US government to ease rules that keep them from operating in Cuba even after President Barack Obama loosened telecommunications regulations last year to pro...
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc. is adding a free email feature that may persuade more people to cut the cords on their landline phones.
The service unveiled last Wednesday enables US users of Google's Gmail service to make calls from microphone-equi...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. and Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. are among insurers with the most at risk from Hurricane Earl, which may strike North Carolina by September 3.
The state had about $133 billion of co...
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LONDON (Reuters) - Bermuda-based property and casualty insurer Omega Insurance sank into the red in the first half of the year, weighed down by a string of costly natural disasters including the Chilean earthquake.
"These catastrophe losses, together...
DATE: Sep 01, 2010
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Francis Mussenden retires today as president and chief executive officer of the Bermuda Telephone Company, ending a 35-year career with the firm.
He will be replaced by Lloyd Fray, CEO of M3 Wireless and Logic Communications and a director of BTC, th...
DATE: Sep 01, 2010
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The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) traded 75 shares worth $338.85 to close the day at $1,258.27.
Butterfield Bank saw 57 shares change hands, but its share price remained unchanged at $1.50.
The Ascendant Group Ltd. also transacted 18 shares, however i...
DATE: Sep 01, 2010
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - US stocks ended little changed in choppy trading yesterday, closing out an August the bulls would like to forget.
Positive data surprises sustained a rally for most of the session, but declines in technology shares capped overall...
DATE: Sep 01, 2010
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Bailed-out insurer American International Group (AIG) faced the prospect of finding another buyer for its Taiwan unit after regulators threw out its proposed $2.2 billion sale to a Chinese company.
Taiwan's economics ministry said ...
DATE: Sep 01, 2010
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Wilbur Ross's monopoly in municipal-bond insurance won't guarantee higher profits.
The 72-year-old billionaire has put his financial weight behind Bermuda-based Assured Guaranty Ltd., which is alone in the $2.8 trillion debt ma...
DATE: Sep 01, 2010
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OSLO (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Seadrill Ltd., the offshore oil-rig company with the world's second-largest ultra-deepwater fleet, reported a second-quarter income that beat analyst estimates by 27 percent and said it was considering acquisitions.
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