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it more expensive for someone to obtain a controlling interest, reports Ahmed ElAmin The Bank of N.T. Butterfield and Son Ltd. is set to swallow the same poison pill defence the Bank of Bermuda Ltd. adopted earlier this year against any takeover att...
DATE: Oct 22, 1997
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With the precision of a grand master, the controllers of Bermuda-based insurer, ACE Ltd., are executing a chess-like strategy designed to position the company to compete for profitable business on a worldwide basis.
Their new knight, Roger Gillett, i...
DATE: Oct 22, 1997
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Is the Year 2000 problem a conspiracy by smart software developers to guarantee themselves higher paying jobs into the next century? Well they've done a good job putting a bug up everyone's millennium.
I just won't be able to party thinking about pla...
DATE: Oct 22, 1997
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to a 5.64 gain in the Bermuda Stock Exchange index, which closed yesterday at 1,328.29.
The Bank of Butterfield gained 25 cents to close at $14.25. Bermuda Home preferred gained 50 cents to close at $12.13. The company's common shares fell 75 cents t...
DATE: Oct 22, 1997
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to buy back up to 70,000 or less than five percent of the 1,450,245 issued and fully paid up common shares.
The company has already purchased 2,000 shares in the fourth quarter ended September 30. Further purchases are expected.
A published legal not...
DATE: Oct 22, 1997
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upbeat, despite an acknowledgement some clients could decide to go elsewhere, reports business writer Ahmed ElAmin The merger of Ernst & Young and KPMG Peat Marwick will make the combined entity the largest accounting and consulting firm both locall...
DATE: Oct 21, 1997
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Businesswoman Renee Edgecombe will consider appealing a Supreme Court decision that has gone against her fight to regain $100,000 she placed as an investment, plus interest.
Her lawyer, Richard T. Horseman, said, "We do have six weeks to appeal and w...
DATE: Oct 21, 1997
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months of the year by nearly 40 percent.
And while the improved profitability was boosted considerably from a one time gain, the company reported a very successful operating result.
Bermuda Home president and CEO, Arthur Haycock, explained: "It shoul...
DATE: Oct 21, 1997
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volume of 53,077 shares valued at about $1.12 million, and bonds worth about $21,000.
The Bank of Butterfield fell 50 cents to close at $14 on a volume of 25,503.
The Bank of Bermuda traded unchanged at $28 on a volume of 24,248. Kentucky Fried Chick...
DATE: Oct 21, 1997
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points on a volume of 37,796 shares valued at $461,070. Seven issues traded, four advancing, two declining and one unchanged in value.
The biggest gainer was Bank of Bermuda, which rose $1, or 3.6 percent, to $28.
The biggest loser was Watlington Wat...
DATE: Oct 20, 1997
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