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Shoppers paid 2.1 per cent more in June for goods and services than a year before.
And the Island’s inflation rate went up 0.9 percentage points from the 1.2 per cent measured in May.
Health and personal care notched up the largest increase year on y...
DATE: Aug 07, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Economy
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A total of 111 shares in insurance firm BF&M today changed hands on the Bermuda Stock Exchange.
The trade left the firm’s price unchanged at $17.20.
The only other activity was 59 shares of the Bank of Butterfield trading, which left its price also u...
DATE: Aug 07, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Bermuda Stock Exchange
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Debbie Bean, the new owner of Grannie’s Kitchen, is working to enhance the restaurant’s reputation as the place to go for home cooking and Bermuda fishcakes.
The establishment on North Shore Road, in Pembroke, has been operating for many years. Howev...
DATE: Aug 06, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
Reinsurance firm Maiden Holdings has posted profits of $20.5 million for the second quarter of the year.
Equivalent to 27 cents per share, the figure is down $5.3 million from the $25.8 million reported for the same period last year (34 cents per sha...
DATE: Aug 06, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — The US Securities and Exchange Commission has approved a rule requiring companies to reveal the pay gap between the chief executive officer and their typical worker, handing a new weapon to groups protesting rising income ine...
DATE: Aug 06, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Other
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Reinsurance firm Third Point Re saw its profits almost halved in the second quarter of the year compared to the previous year.
The company posted profits of $15.7 million for the three months to the end of June — in the same period of 2014, profits a...
DATE: Aug 06, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro, which has an office in Bermuda, is to be bought by US private-equity firm Odyssey Investment Partners for an undisclosed sum.
The acquisition is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of t...
DATE: Aug 06, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Scott Neil
Around 40 people will lose their jobs as the result of Endurance Specialty Holdings’ takeover of Montpelier Reinsurance, according to one source who claimed to have knowledge of the matter.
The source, who said she was a relative of one of those to l...
DATE: Aug 06, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Kent
Financial services company LOM is to buy back up to 200,000 of its own shares for cancellation.
LOM Financial Ltd’s board has authorised the buy-back scheme, which represents around 3.3 per cent of the overall listed securities of the company.
The fi...
DATE: Aug 06, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Bermuda’s international insurance sector pumped more that $900 million into the Island’s economy last year.
The $901.5 million figure was up $14.8 million on 2013.
The figures came in the annual economic survey by the Association of Bermuda Insurers ...
DATE: Aug 06, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Reinsurance
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor