Shares of Butterfield Bank rose 25 cents (0.4 percent) to $60.25 after 8,737 changed hands and helped lift the Royal Gazette / Bermuda Stock Exchange by 13.32 points (0.26 percent) to 5,160.88.

Other active stocks were Bermuda Press (Holdings) Limited with 10,000 shares traded but without altering the closing price of $15.25, and Argus Group with 2,600 shares exchanged but no shift in the price of $15.

The total volume of shares traded was 21,337, valued at $715,728.