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Risk aversion is declining and investors are feeling more comfortable about the outlook. Of course, a depression-like outcome was always highly unlikely. But the uncertainty and associated fear factor was at such a high level that people were willing...
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Risk managers will be given an insight into what the global economic crisis means to their industry at the Bermuda Captive Conference held at the Fairmont Southampton hotel next month.
Several of the panel discussions will deal with emerging issues a...
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new york (Bloomberg) — Assured Guaranty Ltd., the bond insurer backed by billionaire Wilbur Ross, rose the most in more than five months in New York trading after reporting first-quarter profit that topped analysts' estimates.
Assured climbed $2.59, ...
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The Bermuda Telephone Company has made 20 positions redundant as part of its restructuring process and following discussions with the unions over the past few weeks, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
BTC announced the initial job cuts back in March, with...
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar looks set for a pullback after its recent charge to a six-month high as investor euphoria over upbeat data meets the hard reality of the global economy's ongoing problems.
But analysts said the currency's downs...
DATE: May 11, 2009
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Boy, talk about opening a can of words ... last week's comments on problems using Bermuda credit cards in England brought more than 20 responses. We'll get to them next week - with apologies to readers who were expecting to see their letters in print...
DATE: May 09, 2009
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When the medicine cabinet is bare, it is time to go shopping. Cash-rich pharmaceutical companies that find they're running short of blockbuster drugs have decided it makes more sense to shop for another company with attractive products than to resear...
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Butterfield Bank bounced back from its recent decline, rising 14.28 percent (50 cents) to $4 on The Royal Gazette/Bermuda Stock Exchange Index (BSX) yesterday.
The bank, which on Thursday posted a $20.8 million net loss for the first quarter, traded ...
DATE: May 09, 2009
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While it perhaps can be said that genetically all women are created equally, not all women are treated equally.
Even in this time and place on our planet, it is still not the greatest world out there for millions of women (and mothers).
There are rec...
DATE: May 09, 2009
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Spring has arrived and everyone is fed up talking about the greatest depression since the 1930s. So now there are "green shoots" everywhere.
On one day last week, Bloomberg carried 118 articles and research reports from many sources in which the most...
DATE: May 09, 2009
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