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MUNICH (Bloomberg) — Betting against a pandemic paid off for Michael Stahel, who earned returns on so-called "death bonds" that were three times higher than those generated by corporate debt securities last year.
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DATE: Jan 17, 2008
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Now is the time to cash in on gold jewellery, according to some of Bermuda's top high street jewellers.
With the value of the dollar weakening and the price of gold rising, there has never been a better time to invest in gold rings, chains, bracelets...
DATE: Jan 17, 2008
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) ¿ Americans with diabetes are doing a better job of keeping their blood glucose under control, a new analysis shows.
The percentage of people with Type 1 or 2 diabetes who had poor glycemic control fell from 21 percent in 19...
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Defending champion Neil Speaight is back in Bermuda and fired up for tomorrow evening's KPMG Front Street Mile only months after a major health scare.
Today he has reason to revel in the fact that he is competing at a high level again after a tumour ...
DATE: Jan 17, 2008
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One runner was missed from the list of competitors in tomorrow's KPMG Middle School Boys Mile race, which was published in The Royal Gazette's Bermuda International Race Weekend supplement on Tuesday.
That athlete is Nakeno Creighton. He is 11-years-...
DATE: Jan 17, 2008
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LONDON (AP) — Newcastle beat Stoke 4-1 last night in the English FA Cup in their first match since Kevin Keegan's return to the club, while non-league Havant and Waterlooville beat Swansea 4-2 to set up a fourth-round meeting with Liverpool.
Newcastl...
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Two Bermuda reinsurers last night announced they would take a combined quarter-billion-dollar hit from their exposure to investments related to the US mortgage crisis.
RenaissanceRe will write down its imminent fourth-quarter results by $181.7 millio...
DATE: Jan 17, 2008
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co said yesterday quarterly profit fell a worse-than-expected 24 percent as the No. 3 US bank lost $1.3 billion on risky mortgages and set aside more money for rising losses on home-equity loans.
Investors, howev...
DATE: Jan 17, 2008
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Oliver Rendell Arton, a major figure in Bermuda's banking world, has died aged 91.
Mr. Arton joined Butterfield Bank in 1934, working his way up the ranks, occupying just about every job from teller to his most recent position, of senior internationa...
DATE: Jan 17, 2008
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Two Bermuda reinsurers expect to write down their fourth-quarter results by a combined quarter of a billion dollars, after they announced last night that their stakes in a bond reinsurer had become worthless.
RenaissanceRe will take a $181.7 million ...
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