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NEW YORK (AP) - A stock market ripe for a big pull-back succumbed yesterday, plunging when rumours of a bank failure revived investors' anxiety about the banking industry and the economy as a whole.
A batch of economic reports that just were not good...
DATE: Sep 02, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Foreign insurers are less optimistic than a year ago about penetrating the Chinese market due to tighter regulations and as local rivals prove more resilient to an economic slowdown, a PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP survey showed.
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DATE: Sep 02, 2009
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Ten years ago, Nikki Begg was working in the investments division of Bank of Bermuda when she decided she wanted a change and went looking for a part-time job. She was looking for flexiblity, freedom to travel, time with her two dogs and a job she co...
DATE: Sep 01, 2009
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) - Walt Disney Co. agreed to buy Marvel Entertainment Inc. for about $4 billion in cash and stock, adding the comic-book characters Iron Man and Spider-Man to its line-up of princesses and live-action stars.
Marvel investors will ...
DATE: Sep 01, 2009
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Two years into the global financial crisis, global reinsurers' performance to date could be counted as an achievement, given the state of the financial services industry and the economy.
The reinsurance industry entered 2009 with sound underwriting r...
DATE: Sep 01, 2009
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Entrepreneurs and small business owners were given an insight into the real estate products and services available to them at a seminar held by the Economic Empowerment Zone (EEZ) Agency.
The meeting entitled 'Real Estate and Property Matters in the ...
DATE: Sep 01, 2009
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Bermuda has not reached levels of public debt that would cause the UK alarm, Governor Sir Richard Gozney said yesterday.
His comments came after The Foreign and Commonwealth Office refused the Cayman Islands Government permission to borrow more money...
DATE: Sep 01, 2009
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Bermuda-based bond insurer Assured Guaranty shares fell five percent but later recovered strongly yesterday after UBS analyst Brian Meredith downgraded the company.
Mr. Meredith cut his rating on Assured to neutral from ...
DATE: Sep 01, 2009
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PREVENTING TRAGEDIES: The stresses of hard times can overwhelm someone without a support system of family and friends, psychologists say, sometimes even leading to tragedies at a work site.
The Labor Department, for example, reported recently that su...
DATE: Sep 01, 2009
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A love and passion for her job will see Lucy Willitts's after-school care service mark its 25th year in business next week.
Ms Willitts set up L'Ecole on her own in September 1984 and has since then seen thousands of pupils go through its doors.
She ...
DATE: Sep 01, 2009
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