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LONDON (Reuters) - A lucrative ride on the rollercoaster energy markets helped add to the big increases in profit that BP Plc and Royal Dutch Shell Plc posted yesterday.
BP beat forecasts with a 48 percent leap in first-quarter profit to $6.6 billion...
DATE: Apr 30, 2008
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Christopher Gardner, the author of "The Pursuit of Happyness", topped the bill for the opening meeting of the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) 2008 conference in San Diego on Monday.
Mr. Gardner told delegates his life story, which the bo...
DATE: Apr 30, 2008
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Bermuda exhibitors and delegates were out in force at the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) conference in San Diego this week.
Judy Hart, executive vice-president and head of insurance operations at Endurance Specialty Insurance Ltd., and ...
DATE: Apr 30, 2008
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Retreating commodities helped knock 260 points off the Toronto Stock Exchange's main index yesterday, as it was dragged lower by sinking resource shares.
A sell-off in oil and gold, key underlying commodities for the resource-lade...
DATE: Apr 30, 2008
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Finance Minister Paul Cox picked up some tips on dealing with the media and dropped in on a few rival jurisdictions during her visit to the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) 2008 conference in San Diego this week.
Ms Cox did her traditiona...
DATE: Apr 30, 2008
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EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — Workers returned to the Grangemouth oil refinery in central Scotland yesterday after a 48-hour strike that forced the closure of a major North Sea pipeline system.
UNITE, Britain's largest union, said further industrial act...
DATE: Apr 30, 2008
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Two subsidiaries of Bermuda insurer CRM Holdings have seen their ratings from AM Best come under review with negative imoplications, because of a threat to an affliate's New York third-party administrative licence.
Best has placed the financial stren...
DATE: Apr 30, 2008
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Clients are demanding more services from their brokers, according to the latest report by the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) and Advisen Ltd.
The findings of the Broker Services and Remuneration Study, which was officially released at t...
DATE: Apr 30, 2008
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LONDON (Reuters) - Striking workers are expected back at work at the Grangemouth refinery today, helping restart a pipeline carrying half of Britain's oil, a spokesman for plant owner Ineos said yesterday.
Scotland may need to import fuel for weeks, ...
DATE: Apr 29, 2008
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Bermuda-based Axis Capital Holdings Ltd. yesterday reported record first-quarter earnings of $238 million, up four percent on the same three months last year.
Broken down, the earnings amounted to $1.48 per share, compared to $1.37 in 2007, and the r...
DATE: Apr 29, 2008
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