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Bermuda Press (Holdings) Ltd plans to reinstate a quarterly dividend and buy back up to $1 million of its own shares. The company, which owns this newspaper, as well as retail, real estate and commercial printing interests, has suspended the dividend...

White Mountains Insurance Group yesterday posted profits of $274 million for the last quarter of 2015. The figure was up by $219.1 million on the $54.9 million recorded for the same quarter the previous year. The book value per share was $699, up 6.8...

Butterfield Bank led local stocks lower last week. The bank’s share price slid five cents, or 2.8 per cent, to $1.75 — its lowest closing price since last October. During the five days of Bermuda Stock Exchange trading, 22,800 of the bank’s shares ch...

Argo Group International Holdings has reported a record year for underwriting income, notching up just over $2 billion in gross written premiums for 2015. That is an increase of 5.6 per cent year-on-year. The group, which has its headquarters on Pitt...

The Royal Gazette/BSX Index closed at 1,219.2, down 0.98 points (0.08 per cent). Argus Group shares fell five cents (1.3 per cent) to close at $3.85 after 1,406 were traded. The BSX Insurance Index closed at 1,594.85, down 11.81 points (0.74 per cent...

Dear Dave, I’ve been following your plan, and I’ve finally got out of debt and feel I have control of my finances. I’m also single, and I was wondering if you have any tips for how to gracefully mention financial topics and budgeting when you’re on a...

Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC) reported strong revenue growth in the fourth quarter of last year despite the dampening effect of the strong dollar. The New York-based company, whose holdings include insurance broker Marsh and reinsurance broker Guy...

The first group of ten trainees hired by a telecoms firm have started work. The Digicel and BTC trainees will undergo a three-year programme designed to qualify them as technical engineers. Robin Seale, chief executive officer of Digicel and BTC, sai...

Gosling’s appears to have struck gold with its newest product, Goslings Gold Seal rum. It is the Bermuda company’s newest product, and it has been gaining fans, both locally and overseas, since it was rolled out at the start of the year. It is a spir...

The total amount of wages and salaries earned in Bermuda in the third quarter of 2015 rose 3.4 per cent from the same period the year before, government statistics show. More than four-fifths of the increase was attributable to one sector — internati...