Bermuda forex news

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House voted overwhelmingly Friday to delay for 17 months new rules requiring passports for U.S. land and sea travelers entering the United States from Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Bermuda.The State Department has been flooded with passport applications since new rules requiring passports for air travelers went into effect in January...

(AP) - Major business events and economic events scheduled for the coming week (some dates are tentative):MONDAY, May 7WASHINGTON -- Treasury bill auction, 2 p.m.; Federal Reserve reports on consumer credit for March, 3 p.m.SAN FRANCISCO -- McKesson Corp...

(AFX) - BERMUDA: British Caribbean territory sees 23 percent increase in tourist arrivals in 2006SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- The number of tourists vacationing in Bermuda in 2006 increased 23 percent from the previous year, the prime minister has said...

WASHINGTON (AFX) - Canadians and U.S. border-state officials are concerned that rules requiring passports for Americans and other travelers entering the United States will hurt commerce and tourism.Starting Tuesday, air travelers who are citizens of Canada, Mexico and Bermuda, as well as U...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AFX) - The St. Paul Travelers insurance company has agreed to stop paying "contingent commissions" to brokers and agents to steer business to insurance companies, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Tuesday.In August, the St...

WASHINGTON (AFX) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security system that uses biometric technology to screen people entering the country has aided border patrol agents, but computer snafus and management shortfalls need to be resolved, according to a report issued Thursday...

WASHINGTON (AFX) - The Department of Homeland Security is working with foreign governments to develop privacy and ethics standards for biometrics systems that capture fingerprints and other information from global travelers, the head of the U.S. program said Wednesday...

WASHINGTON (AFX) - The Homeland Security Department will require virtually all air travelers entering the United States after Jan. 23 to show passports -- even U.S. citizens.Until now, U.S. citizens, travelers from Canada and Bermuda, and some travelers from Mexico who have special border-crossing cards for frequent visitors were allowed to show other proofs of identification, such as drivers' licenses or birth certificates...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AFX) - Investors who bet against the odds of another devastating Atlantic hurricane season now stand to cash in big-time on "catastrophe bonds." Contrary to expert predictions, the season turned out to be the mildest in years.Insurance companies sell the bonds, yielding interest rates of about 15 percent, to help them absorb huge payouts in the event of another storm like Hurricane Katrina...

WASHINGTON (AFX) - Refco Inc.'s retail foreign-exchange customers has teamed up with an electronic currency-trading service in a lawsuit that seeks the return of at least $10 million from the company, which crashed into bankruptcy nearly a year ago.The customers, who so far have been sidelined by bigger Refco creditors in the race to retrieve assets lost in the company's collapse, said in the lawsuit that Refco's foreign-exchange subsidiary assured customers at the time of the collapse that their accounts wouldn't be affected...

PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos (AFX) - Premier Michael Misick said Tuesday he would try to block a Canadian company's purchase of two electric utilities, arguing the companies responsible for serving most Turks and Caicos residents should stay in local hands...

MIAMI (AFX) - A seven-year U.S. legal feud between members of the prominent Guatemalan family that controls the popular Pollo Campero restaurant chain has reached a turning point that could send the bitter dispute over millions of dollars back to Guatemala -- where one side claims justice may be impossible to get...