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LONDON - Financial stocks boosted Britain's leading share index, rallying from falls in the previous session following weak US jobs data and supported by energy markers which gained in tandem with crude. The FTSE 100 was up 78.13 points, or 1.5 perce...
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Stereotypes bedevil the hiring process and they torment ambitious professionals in their careers. But they're impossible to eradicate. Why? Because stereotypes are energy-saving devices, mental shortcuts that allow us to extrapolate a great deal from...
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Age: 34
Role: Support services supervisor, Marsh
What is your job? My job is to ensure the smooth operation of the Marsh offices. I oversee the reception, mailroom, stationery and catering departments on a daily basis and make sure that each area run...
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Butterfield Bank was the only trader on The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) as the Index closed at 1,244.25 yesterday.
The bank traded 1,207 common shares and 80 preference shares, but its share prices remained unchanged at $1.45 and $1,200 respectively...
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Bermuda-based Allied World Assurance Company Holdings Ltd. has repurchased $250 million of its common shares from some of the company's founding shareholders.
The company bought five million shares from affiliates of US banking giant Goldman Sachs, i...
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index rose yesterday as strong oil prices pushed up its energy sector and investors showed optimism that the US Federal Reserve will signal steps to boost economic recovery.
The energy sector was up 0.6 percen...
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CHICAGO (AP) — McDonald's lesson from July: If you want to start selling cold, fruity drinks, pick one of the hottest months in US history.
The fast-food giant posted its biggest monthly increase in more than a year in an important US sales figure as...
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LONDON (AP) — Fancy a credit-crunch keepsake or a meltdown memento?
Artworks, objects and office signs from the European offices of Lehman Brothers are being auctioned to help pay creditors of the failed investment bank, Christie's auction house said...
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Company Q2 Net income Q2 GPW Q2 Sh. equity Q2 Oil rig loss
Ace $677 million $5.2 billion $21.4 billion -
Arch $237 million $817.1 million $4.4 billion -
Argo $26.1 million $435.3 million $1.6 billion -
Assured $203.5 million $91.7 million $3.9 billi...
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Bermuda's insurance industry will have to foot the bill for at least $137.4 million for the damage caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil platform spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the companies' second-quarter earnings reports.
Validus Holdings...
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