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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point to one percent, matching a half-century low, in an effort to avert the worst US economic downturn in the postwar era.
"Downside risks to growth rema...
DATE: Oct 30, 2008
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ace Ltd. chief executive Evan Greenberg yesterday chided insurers asking to take part in a taxpayer-funded financial rescue, saying the motivation is not real need but access to "cheap capital".
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DATE: Oct 30, 2008
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The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange fell slightly yesterday to close at 3,667.20. The BSX dropped 18.30 points (0.50 percent) on a day which saw only three stocks active.
Butterfield Bank traded 11,377 shares and closed unchanged at $12.
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Police have completed a five-year investigation into the use of $700,000 of taxpayers' money handed to former Berkeley Institute contractor, Pro-Active Management Systems.
Auditor General Larry Dennis yesterday confirmed the inquiry has finished, alt...
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Masterworks Foundation staffer Carrie Zenti's fascination with polaroid transfer photography is the focus of her solo exhibition which opens this evening in the Rick Faries Gallery of the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art, and continues through Novem...
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A large number of Bermuda insurance and reinsurance executives are this week attending two key industry gatherings that are a world apart.
In Germany at the Black Forest spa town of Baden Baden, and in Scottsdale, Arizona in the US, reinsurers and in...
DATE: Oct 30, 2008
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LONDON (Reuters) - British mortgage approvals rose last month for the first time in over a year, data showed yesterday, but analysts cautioned the marginal pick up from August's record low did not portend a housing market recovery.
Mortgage lending l...
DATE: Oct 30, 2008
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Polaroid show opening tonight at Masterworks
Masterworks Foundation staffer Carrie Zenti's fascination with polaroid transfer photography is the focus of her solo exhibition which opens this evening in the Rick Faries Gallery of the Masterworks Museu...
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Bermuda College will welcome more than 100 Caribbean educators next week as it hosts an education conference.
The fifth Annual Caribbean Area Network for Quality Assurance in Tertiary Education (CANQATE) Conference takes place on November 5 and Novem...
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A wheelchair-bound Pembroke woman is banking on communi ty generousity – appealing for the use of a heated swimming pool so she might continue with the therapy needed for her rare disorder.
Tonya Symonds, 23, of North Shore Road, has Complex Regional...
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