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WASHINGTON (AP) — Mortgage giant Freddie Mac is looking for $6.1 billion in additional government aid as the cost to taxpayers from the housing market bust keeps growing.
The McLean, Virginia-based company, seized by federal regulators in September, ...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — MBIA Inc. chief executive officer Jay Brown said the largest bond insurer may be able to unwind much of its credit losses because the debt it agreed to back didn't meet contractual promises.
About 66 percent to 80 percent of th...
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The public is being given a rare opportunity to tour one of Bermuda's historic estates on Saturday.
The Garden Club of Bermuda is hosting a gala party in the grounds of 'Mayflower' in Devonshire, as part of its celebration of Bermuda's 400th annivers...
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LONDON (Reuters) - E.ON UK, Dong Energy and Masdar have agreed to push ahead with the London Array wind farm, giving a boost to the UK plan to build up massive offshore wind farms to meet its carbon reduction target.
Frank Mastiaux, chief executive o...
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Suppressing journalism
May 7, 2009
Dear Sir,
It is a sad day when a Government takes steps to try and control how the media does its job.
I am a retired broadcast journalist who spent 42 years, many of them in Bermuda as News Director at ZBM, and nev...
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Bermuda-based Primus Guaranty Ltd. agreed to buy CypressTree Investment Management LLP, which manages $2.4 billion of leveraged loans.
Primus, led by chief executive officer Thomas Jasper, will manage a total of $25 billion in ...
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LONDON (AP) — Economic data raised hopes yesterday that the worst of the recession could be over in Britain, showing a jump in retail sales, a strong rise in new homebuyer inquiries and a slowing rate of decline in manufacturing output.
The flurry of...
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SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that the decline in the US housing market may be bottoming and it is "very easy to see" financial markets continuing to improve.
"We are finally beginning to see the seed...
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Athletes Tre Houston and Kijuan Wilkinson have continued the fine form of Bermudians in track and field this year with both putting in superb performances over the weekend.
Houston represented Howard Community College at the NJCAA Division III Outdoo...
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Validus Holdings Ltd. has gone full steam ahead with its hostile bid for IPC Holdings Ltd. - despite the planned merger between Max Capital Group Ltd. and IPC still being in the offing.
Validus announced yesterday that it had started its share exchan...
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