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Bermuda’s inflation rate may be four times higher than the Government’s official Consumer Price Index, according to a Bermuda investment firm.
Anchor Investment Management also warned its investors that it expects inflation to stay at 5 per cent or ...
DATE: Oct 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Economy
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AUTHOR:
David Fox, Business Editor
Inflation figures just released by government show that during June consumers paid 1.2 per cent more than they did in June 2020 for the basket of goods and services.
The Ministry for the Cabinet Office released the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) p...
DATE: Sep 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Economy
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Ten infrastructure projects awarded under Government’s short-term economic stimulus programme are complete while a further 11 are ongoing, the House of Assembly has been told.
Wayne Furbert, the Acting Minister of Public Works, said awards to compani...
DATE: Sep 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Economy
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AUTHOR:
Business Staff
Stark quarterly Gross Domestic Product figures show the economy has substantially contracted for the first quarter of the year – the fifth quarterly reduction in a row.
Minister for the Cabinet Office Wayne Furbert revealed yesterday GDP fell by 4.3 ...
DATE: Sep 04, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Economy
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Just a day after releasing the April Retail Sales Index report, the Minister for the Cabinet Office yesterday reported May figures showing an overall volume increase of 10.4 per cent year-over-year.
That figure was arrived at after adjusting for the ...
DATE: Aug 28, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Economy
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AUTHOR:
Duncan Hall
The value of retail sales jumped 25.4 per cent in April, but largely because much of the island was locked down in the same month in 2020 during the pandemic.
Wayne Furbert, the Cabinet Office minister, said the overall volume of local retail sales...
DATE: Aug 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Economy
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AUTHOR:
Business Staff
Bermuda recorded a first quarter 2021 balance of payments surplus nearly $100 million higher than for the same period the year before, Minister for the Cabinet Office Wayne Furbert has reported.
In a press statement, the Minister said: “Bermuda’s tra...
DATE: Aug 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Economy
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AUTHOR:
Business Staff
The Bermuda Monetary Authority has announced that the Authority’s Deputy chairman, Donald Scott, has been appointed by the Minister of Finance to serve as chairman of the Board with effect as of 1 October.
This will coincide with the departure of Je...
DATE: Jul 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
International Business
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The RG/BSX Index climbed 9.54 (0.38 per cent) to close at 2,511.63 on volume of 9,000.
The BSX Index finished up 27.81 (1.60 per cent) at 1770.90.
The Bank of Butterfield closed up 24 cents (0.72 per cent) at $33.52 on the New York Stock Exchange.
DATE: Jul 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Economy
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The finance minister Curtis Dickinson yesterday refused to publicly divulge which countries are allied with Bermuda in the international discussions of the global tax initiative set to come to a head this October.
But he will soon reconstitute the Ta...
DATE: Jul 17, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Economy
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AUTHOR:
David Fox, Business Editor