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share buyback programme. Last week shareholders at the annual general meeting authorised the board of directors to develop and implement a programme to buy the bank's shares.
Usually companies buy back their own shares as a means of boosting earnings...
DATE: Nov 07, 1997
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Government yesterday warned Bermuda businesses which have not yet addressed the "Millennium Bug'' problem, that they may be ill-prepared to deal with the fall-out of non-compliancy at the turn of the century.
The Finance Ministry has assembled repres...
DATE: Nov 06, 1997
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Ms Brown has been providing financial advice to private clients for respected Canadian financial firms for more than 18 years. The list of firms include Royal Trust, RBC Dominion Securities, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Bank of Montreal.
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DATE: Nov 06, 1997
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hundreds of people at a special public forum tonight.
More than 400 guests are expected at the "Constitutional'' Forum at St.
Paul's Centennial Hall in Hamilton.
And the organisers -- the Friends of Montserrat Coalition -- will use the event to begin...
DATE: Nov 06, 1997
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Exchange, which closed down 43.97 points to 1,321.06 on a volume of 17,100 shares valued at $403,025 and bonds valued at $1.17 million. Bermuda Telephone Co. bonds traded up 50 cents to close at $97.50.
DATE: Nov 06, 1997
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came to an end.
Making its repositioning cruise to Hamilton was the Dreamward , which brought 1,133 passengers from New York on Monday. It left on Tuesday morning for its Miami-Caribbean winter route.
The Song of America also made its final voyage fo...
DATE: Nov 06, 1997
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million in the third quarter.
Royal Caribbean, which recently bought Celebrity Cruises, whose Zenith and Meridian have been regular summer callers to Bermuda, said net profits grew $152.8 million from $124.1 million in the nine months to September 30...
DATE: Nov 06, 1997
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September 30 of $461.4 million ($8.02 per share), a 59.3 percent increase over the net income declared for the 1996 year.
It came as fourth quarter business yielded $127.6 million in net income, compared with $86.9 million in the fourth quarter of la...
DATE: Nov 06, 1997
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The Bermuda Telephone Company yesterday took to the streets of Hamilton to inform passers-by of their new services.
BTC recently cut its cellular phone sales to promote cellular services, such as call waiting and call forwarding, instead.
Armed with ...
DATE: Nov 06, 1997
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Setting up an investment service offshore can be a risky and costly business as Alaska-based McKinley Capital Management found out when it decided to start up one in Bermuda.
It took two years, 360,000 air miles of travel, a lot of money on lawyers, ...
DATE: Nov 06, 1997
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