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Bermuda-based services giant Nabors Industries, hit hard by a write-down of oil and gas properties as reflected in its fourth quarter 2009 results, said yesterday it may dispose of the assets as early as this year.
That is according to oil and gas pu...
DATE: Feb 18, 2010
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Iron-Starr Excess Agency Ltd. has recruited a leading executive from American International Group's Bermuda operations.
Lawrence Engrissei will become senior vice-president, claims manager of the Bermuda-based specialty lines insurance managing gener...
DATE: Feb 17, 2010
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Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. has announced that Brian Menges and Andrea Wass have joined Endurance Risk Solutions' Bermuda healthcare team.
Mr. Menges has been appointed vice-president and senior underwriter and Ms Wass as assistant vice-preside...
DATE: Feb 17, 2010
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — US regulators ordered Kellogg Co. to fix sanitation violations at its Atlanta plant after the contamination of Eggo buttermilk waffles with Listeria bacteria.
Inspectors found Kellogg employees cleaning equipment with high-pres...
DATE: Feb 17, 2010
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock market index rose to its highest level in more than three weeks yesterday as oil and gold prices soared, leading resource issues higher, and as risk appetite returned to the market.
Momentum from a strong over...
DATE: Feb 17, 2010
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Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings Ltd.'s operating income more than doubled last year, as the company benefited from selling more reinsurance and a quiet hurricane season.
The Bermuda-based reinsurer posted full-year net income of $242.2 million, or $2....
DATE: Feb 17, 2010
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LONDON - Britain's top shares closed sharply higher as Barclays led a banking sector rally after its 2009 forecast-beating results, and oils and miners were buoyed by firmer commodity prices. The FTSE 100 ended up 76.59 points, or 1.48 percent, at 5,...
DATE: Feb 17, 2010
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Merck & Co posted quarterly revenue ahead of analysts' estimates yesterday, helped by strong sales of its diabetes and allergy drugs, and stuck by its goals from its merger with Schering-Plough Corp.
Merck shares rose two percent...
DATE: Feb 17, 2010
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — American International Group's Christopher Swift is departing the bailed-out insurer to take the top finance job at Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., another company that got government funds.
Swift is the former vice cha...
DATE: Feb 17, 2010
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LONDON (AP) — Royal Bank of Scotland PLC said yesterday that its joint-venture commodities unit RBS Sempra Commodities has sold its metals, oil and European energy businesses to investment bank J.P. Morgan for $1.7 billion.
RBS, which is 84 percent o...
DATE: Feb 17, 2010
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