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What is claimed to be Bermuda's first ever wedding boutique is set to open its doors in St. David's next week in a bid to tap into one of the Island's most lucrative businesses.
Milika Seymour, owner of BLANC Ltd., will be officially launching her ne...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co reported stronger-than-expected quarterly sales as higher demand for its beverages in China, India and Brazil offset a drop in North America, sending the world's largest soft-drink maker's shares up 3.3 percent.
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Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd. achieved a more than fivefold increase in profit for the fourth quarter, as claims fell and investment income climbed.
The Bermuda-based re/insurer said net income for the quarter after tax was $126.3 million, compared t...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Jim Tisch, the leader of Loews Corp., said the US did a "good job of killing" the hotel business by lambasting corporate travel and hurt American International Group Inc.'s ability to return bailout funds by curbing pay.
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How to make a decent return on fixed-income investments is likely to be a challenge for Bermuda's re/insurers in 2010.
That is the view of Christopher Wyke, of asset management firm Schroders, who believes that emerging markets debt (EMD) could be pa...
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ILAN, Taiwan (AP) — There are palm groves here, not heather on the heath, but that hasn't stopped a company in northeastern Taiwan from trying to produce a whisky that can compete with Scottish brands.
Executives at beverage maker King Car Food Indus...
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Microsoft has sent out a bevy of bug fixes in its latest monthly security update. The patches for 25 security holes include a fix for a 17-year-old computer bug in its DOS operating system.
The vulnerability is in almost every version of Windows unti...
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CHICAGO / LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp posted an expectations-topping 2.6 percent increase in January sales at established restaurants, as overseas results overshadowed a sluggish performance in the United States.
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DETROIT (AP) — You're driving down the highway and suddenly your car starts accelerating on its own. Knuckles white, going from 60 to 90 miles an hour in a couple of seconds, you do what comes naturally — hit the brakes. But what if the car keeps goi...
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Max Capital Group Ltd. returned to profit in the fourth quarter of 2009 as the company's Bermuda and Dublin re/insurance operations led the way with more than 68 percent of its property and casualty gross premiums written last year.
The re/insurer re...
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