Jubilation after Gombey Warriors secure place in final qualifying round
‘Bermuda showed incredible resilience and tactical nous’
Bermuda achieved a remarkable feat in the CONCACAF Qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup 2026, stunning hosts Cuba with a 2-1 victory in Santiago de Cuba to secure their place in the Final Qualifying Round. With the final spots in Group A’s Second Round on the line, the stakes were incredibly high. Bermuda started brightly, stunning the home crowd by taking a 1-0 lead in just the 6th minute, with Djair Parfitt finding the back of the net. That early strike proved decisive as Bermuda held onto their narrow advantage, taking a 1-0 lead into the half-time break. Cuba came out with renewed vigour in the second half, finding their equalizer in the 58th minute through Jorge Aguirre. But Bermuda showed incredible resilience and tactical nous. Substitute Reggie Lambe, on the field for just five minutes, made an immediate impact, putting Bermuda back in front with a crucial goal in the 74th minute. Bermuda would hang on for the final 16 minutes, plus stoppage time, to claim the win. The final whistle was met with jubilation, confirming their hard-fought victory and their progression to the Final Qualifying Round of the FIFA World Cup 2026. This is a monumental achievement for Bermudian football.
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U.S. markets were underwhelmed by the outcome of the U.S.-China talks
FILE PHOTO: The flags of the United States and China fly from a lamppost in the Chinatown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., November 1, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/FIle photo
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After all the hype, this week’s trade talks between the United States and China turned into something of a damp squib, producing a ‘framework’ for progress and little in the way of concrete details. Investor attention will now quickly switch to today’s U.S. consumer price inflation report and two big auctions of long-term Treasury debt, including $39 billion of 10-year Treasury notes.
I’ll discuss this and the rest of today’s market news below. Plus, today’s column explains why Italy’s surprising bond market revival challenges its reputation as a debt outlier and what this means for the rest of the G7.
Today’s Market Minute
* U.S. and Chinese officials said on Tuesday they had agreed on a framework to get their trade truce back on track and remove China’s export restrictions on rare earths, while offering little sign of a durable resolution to longstanding trade tensions.
* Billionaire businessman Elon Musk said on Wednesday he regretted some of the posts he made last week about U.S. President Donald Trump as they had gone “too far”.
* Several U.S. cities braced for protests on Wednesday against Trump’s sweeping immigration raids, as parts of the country’s second largest city Los Angeles spent the night under curfew in an effort to quell five days of unrest.
* Beijing’s restrictions on rare earth exports have exposed the West’s dependency on Chinese supplies of these esoteric metals and the magnets they help power. Part of the solution may be to simply use less of them, says ROI metals columnist Andy Home.
* Seismic shifts in immigration are distorting the U.S. employment picture, making it harder for investors and policymakers to know exactly how much the labor market is actually slowing. Find out more in the latest from ROI markets columnist Jamie McGeever.
U.S.-China framework underwhelms
U.S. markets were underwhelmed by the outcome of the U.S.-China talks, with stock futures slipping back into the red early Wednesday.
Chinese stocks, by contrast, took a more positive view of the London talks and advanced almost 1% to a three-week high. The CSI Rare Earth Index jumped nearly 4%, as Chinese rare earths magnet producer JL MAG Rare-Earth said it had obtained export licences to regions including the U.S., Europe and Southeast Asia for products including magnets, motor rotors and components.
There are currently few details available about the discussions between Washington and Beijing.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the framework puts “meat on the bones” of a stalled agreement in Geneva last month, with the aim of removing restrictions on Chinese exports of rare earths and magnets and some of the recent U.S. export restrictions “in a balanced way”.
But there was no additional information about the sky-high bilateral tariffs imposed – and paused – in recent months. Whatever agreements the two parties came to will now go back to their respective presidents for approval.
In the background, JPMorgan lifted its end-of-year forecast for China’s onshore yuan, citing moderating risks around the trade war and a global theme of so-called de-dollarization.
The U.S. investment bank revised its dollar/yuan target to 7.15 from 7.30, seeing a “gentle downtrend” to 7.10 by mid-2026.
There was better news on the trade front back in the Americas. The United States and Mexico are negotiating a deal to reduce or eliminate Trump’s 50% steel tariffs on imports up to a certain volume, industry sources said late Tuesday. That appeared to underscore the rise in Mexico’s peso this week to its best level since August last year.
Meanwhile, MCSI’s all-country stock index managed to eke out another small gain to hit a new record high, which is impressive given the latest world economic forecasts.
The World Bank slashed its global growth forecast for 2025 by 0.4 percentage point to 2.3%, saying that higher tariffs and heightened uncertainty posed a “significant headwind”.
In its twice-yearly Global Economic Prospects report, the bank lowered its forecasts for nearly 70% of all economies, including the United States, China and Europe, as well as six emerging market regions.
While the World Bank stopped short of forecasting a recession, it said growth this year would be the weakest outside of a recession since 2008. It forecast that GDP growth would average just 2.5% by 2027, the slowest pace in any decade since the 1960s.
Speaking in Beijing, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said coercive trade policies will fail to resolve financial imbalances and that the risk of mutual damage is so great that all sides must weigh policy adjustments to resolve the tensions.
Nevertheless, over in the UK, the blue chip FTSE100 rose to within a whisker of record highs set in March as investors awaited UK finance minister Rachael Reeves’ latest government spending review on Wednesday.
Reeves will allocate more than 2 trillion pounds ($2.7 trillion) of public spending to different departments, outlining the government’s priorities for the coming year.
The FTSE was helped by sterling’s swoon this week after softer data on wages and jobs raised expectations for at least two more Bank of England interest rate cuts this year. The pound remained on the backfoot on Wednesday, near its weakest level against the euro in a month.
Elsewhere, Tesla shares climbed more than 2% ahead of the bell after its billionaire owner Elon Musk said he regretted some of the posts he made last week about President Trump.
But domestic U.S. tensions simmered as several U.S. cities braced for protests against Trump’s sweeping immigration raids.
On the economic front, U.S. consumer prices are likely to have increased moderately in May given the relatively low price of gasoline, but tariffs probably started filtering through to other goods, potentially spurring underlying inflation pressures.
Core CPI inflation is expected to have hit 0.3% last month, which would push up the annual core rate to 2.9% from 2.8% in April.
Make sure to check out today’s column, which looks at the remarkable drop in Italy’s bond market risk premium versus Germany’s.
Chart of the day
China holds a near monopoly on rare earth magnets, a crucial component in electric vehicle motors, and its decision in April to suspend exports of a wide range of critical minerals and magnets upended global supply chains. In May, Washington responded by halting shipments of semiconductor design software and chemicals and aviation equipment, revoking export licences that had been previously issued. Two days of talks in London between the two biggest economies attempted to break this logjam.
Today’s events to watch
* U.S. May consumer price report (8:30 AM EDT), US May Federal budget (2:00 PM EDT)
* UK finance minister Rachel Reeves to announce multi-year spending plan
* U.S. Treasury auctions $39 billion of 10-year notes
* U.S. corporate earnings: Oracle
* European Central Bank board member Piero Cipollone and Irish central bank chief Gabriel Makhlouf speak
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A number of cars were set on fire and one lay upside down in flames
Police officers line up in front of a burning vehicle during a second night of riots, in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, June 11, 2025. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
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Hundreds of masked rioters attacked police and set homes and cars on fire in the Northern Irish town of Ballymena on Tuesday, in the second successive night of disorder that followed a protest over an alleged sexual assault in the town.
Seventeen officers were injured, bringing to 32 the number hurt since the violence began on Monday following a large protest over an alleged sexual assault in the town.
Two 14-year-old boys appeared in court that day, accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl. The charges were read to the teenagers via a Romanian interpreter, the BBC reported. A lawyer told the court that the two teenagers denied the charge. They were remanded in custody until July 2.
Police are investigating attacks on properties on Monday that saw four houses damaged by fire as racially-motivated “hate crimes”.
“The mindless violence witnessed over the past two nights in Ballymena is deeply concerning and utterly unacceptable,” Police Service of Northern Ireland Chief Constable Jon Boutcher said in a statement on Wednesday.
“Hate-fuelled acts and mob rule do nothing but tear at the fabric of our society… This behaviour must stop.”
One Romanian resident told the Irish Times on Tuesday that she was putting a British flag on her front window in a bid to prevent being targeted. Another door had a British and Filipino flag with a message saying “Filipino lives here”, a photograph in The Belfast Telegraph showed.
Five people were arrested on suspicion of riotous behaviour in Ballymena, located 45 kilometres (28 miles) from the capital Belfast, following one arrest there on Monday, police said on Wednesday.
HOUSE BURNED OUT
Police in Northern Ireland sporadically come under attack whenever tensions rise in parts of the British region, 27 years after a peace deal ended three decades of sectarian bloodshed there.
Officers in riot gear and driving armoured vans responded on Tuesday with water cannon and non-lethal rounds, known as attenuated energy projectiles, after being attacked by petrol bombs, scaffolding and rocks that rioters gathered by knocking down nearby walls, a Reuters witness said.
One house was burned out and a police officer vomited after leaving another in a different part of the town that rioters had attempted to set alight, the witness added.
A number of cars were set on fire and one lay upside down in flames as police sirens blared throughout the town past midnight.
Separate protests on Tuesday blocked off some roads in Belfast, another Reuters witness said.
Bins were set alight and bottles and masonry thrown at police following protests in the towns of Newtownabbey and Carrickfergus, police said. Police also reported some incidents in north Belfast.
The British government and local politicians condemned the violence.
“The terrible scenes of civil disorder we have witnessed in Ballymena again this evening have no place in Northern Ireland,” Britain’s Northern Ireland Minister Hilary Benn said on X.
Additional reporting by Amanda Ferguson in Belfast; Writing by Padraic Halpin; Editing by Sachin Ravikumar and Alex Richardson
The two Koreas remain technically at war since the Korean War of 1950 to 1953
FILE PHOTO: South Korean soldiers work on a loudspeaker that is set up for propaganda broadcasts during a military drill near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, South Korea, in this handout picture provided by the Defense Ministry and released on June 9, 2024. The Defense Ministry/Handout via REUTERS /File Photo
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South Korea’s military said on Wednesday it had suspended loudspeaker broadcasts near the border targeting North Korea, nearly a year after resuming the propaganda and K-pop blasts during a time of growing tension with its neighbour.
The step makes good on a promise by President Lee Jae-myung, who took office this month vowing to resume dialogue with the North, suspend the loudspeaker broadcasts and restore a suspended military pact with Pyongyang.
Lee ordered the pre-emptive measure to ease tension, reduce military confrontation and build trust, his spokesperson, Kang Yu-jung, told a briefing, as North Korea has refrained from provocations lately.
“Now it is North Korea’s turn to respond,” ruling party lawmaker Kim Byung-joo said in a statement. “Please stop broadcasting noise at the South.”
Those living near the heavily fortified border have opposed the loudspeaker broadcasts, which they blame for severe noise nuisance.
Seoul’s resumption last July of a round-the-clock campaign of loudspeaker broadcasts was in response to Pyongyang’s launch of balloons carrying trash over the border, the South’s military said then.
Pyongyang had said the balloons were retaliation for a propaganda campaign by North Korean defectors and activists in the South who regularly send inflatables with anti-Pyongyang leaflets and other items across the border.
The two Koreas remain technically at war since an armistice ended fighting in the Korean War of 1950 to 1953.
Reporting by Hyunsu Yim; Editing by Jacqueline Wong and Clarence Fernandez
Analysts said consumers are likely to face the impact of tariffs through higher goods prices
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Dollar banknotes are seen in this illustration taken July 17, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
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The dollar steadied on Wednesday as teams from the U.S. and China concluded trade talks in London, hinting at a thaw in a damaging trade war but offering scant detail, while sterling was firm ahead of a British government spending review.
U.S. and Chinese officials approved a framework based on a trade truce reached last month in Geneva that would resolve China’s export restrictions on rare earth minerals and magnets, and remove some U.S. export restrictions recently put in place.
Chinese Vice Commerce Minister Li Chenggang said that the next step would be to take the agreed framework back to their respective heads of state.
“On traditional metrics this would be a ‘sell the dollar’ moment: good for risk, good for global trade,” said James Kniveton, senior corporate FX dealer at Convera.
However, since the dollar has not been behaving like a safe-haven asset lately, people might instead continue buying dollars and invest in Wall Street, Kniveton said.
Much of the year has been dominated by investor unease over U.S. President Donald Trump’s erratic policies. Despite a bounceback in U.S. stocks, the erosion of investor confidence clearly shows in a dollar that is down by over 8% this year.
On Wednesday the dollar was 0.1% weaker versus the euro at $1.1438, and rose 0.1% against the yen to 144.93 .
China’s onshore yuan was little changed at 7.1849 per dollar.
An index that measures the greenback against six other currencies was flat at 98.993.
Still, analysts noted that any newly agreed tariffs would be higher than they were late last year, while the blow that trade uncertainty has had on both economies is yet to be fully reflected in economic data.
Commerzbank analysts said no new improvements were achieved in the U.S.-China talks, rather only the tensions that have arisen since the last agreement had been defused.
Markets are also awaiting a closely-watched UK spending review, with British finance minister Rachel Reeves set to divvy up more than 2 trillion pounds ($2.7 trillion) of public spending for government departments from 2026 to 2029 and investment plans out to 2030.
Sterling was flat at $1.349, while gilt yields, which are among the highest in the developed world, underperformed on Wednesday, adding 7 bps to 4.598%, compared with a 1 bp rise in 10-year Treasuries, which yielded 4.49%.
“This week’s spending review will highlight the tight fiscal headroom, leaving a bearish taste in rates markets. Until the government moves towards tax increases …, the room for longer-dated sterling rates to move lower will be limited,” analysts at ING said.
Later in the day, investors will parse a U.S. consumer inflation report that could potentially determine the trajectory of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy for the rest of 2025.
The Fed is expected to hold rates steady next week and a Reuters poll showed that analysts expect the central bank to maintain that stance until September.
Analysts at ANZ Bank said consumers are likely to face the impact of tariffs through higher goods prices, which would also keep the Fed cautious as they look for more clarity on how U.S. trade policy is impacting inflation over the coming months.
Attention will also be on a $39 billion, 10-year Treasury bond auction that could be a reflection of investor appetite for U.S. debt, as concerns mount regarding an expensive tax and spending bill that is making its rounds in Congress.
The yield on 10-year Treasuries was 2 bps higher at 4.4898%.
Reporting by Johann M Cherian in Bengaluru and Lucy Raitano in London;editing by Shri Navaratnam, Kim Coghill and Mark Heinrich
Trump has repeatedly threatened Iran with bombing if it does not reach a new nuclear deal
FILE PHOTO: Iran’s Defense Minister, Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh during meet with Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, at Miraflores Palace, in Caracas, Venezuela November 21, 2024. Miraflores Palace/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
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If nuclear negotiations fail and conflict arises with the United States, Iran will strike American bases in the region, Defence Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh said on Wednesday, days ahead of a planned sixth round of Iran-U.S. nuclear talks.
“Some officials on the other side threaten conflict if negotiations don’t come to fruition. If a conflict is imposed on us … all U.S. bases are within our reach and we will boldly target them in host countries,” Nasirzadeh said during a weekly press briefing.
U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened Iran with bombing if it does not reach a new nuclear deal.
The next round of talks is due this week, with Trump saying negotiations would be held on Thursday while Tehran says they will take place on Sunday in Oman.
Iran is expected to hand a counter-proposal to a previous U.S. offer for a nuclear deal it rejected, with Trump saying on Tuesday that Iran was becoming “much more aggressive” in nuclear talks.
Tehran and Washington have clashed on the issue on uranium enrichment on Iranian soil, which Western powers say is a potential pathway to the development of nuclear weapons. Iran holds that its nuclear programme is purely for civilian purposes.
“As we resume talks on Sunday, it is clear that an agreement that can ensure the continued peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program is within reach — and could be achieved rapidly,” Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said in a post on X on Wednesday.
Another sticking point in the talks has been Iran’s missile programme. Ballistic missiles form an important part of Iran’s arsenal.
Nasirzadeh said that Tehran recently tested a missile with a two-ton warhead and does not accept limitations.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had said in February that Iran should further develop its military, including its missiles.
Reporting by Dubai NewsroomEditing by Peter Graff, Aidan Lewis
Tesla shares rose 2.3% in pre-market trading after Musk’s post
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk attend a press conference in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 30, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo
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Billionaire businessman Elon Musk said on Wednesday he regretted some of the posts he made last week about U.S. President Donald Trump as they had gone “too far”.
Trump said on Saturday his relationship with Musk was over after they exchanged insults on social media, with the Tesla and SpaceX CEO describing the president’s sweeping tax and spending bill as a “disgusting abomination.”
Musk has since deleted some posts critical of Trump, including one signaling support for impeaching the president, and sources close to the world’s richest man say his anger has started to subside and he may want to repair the relationship.
“I regret some of my posts about President Donald Trump last week. They went too far,” Musk wrote in a post on his social media platform X on Wednesday, without saying which specific posts he was talking about.
Tesla shares rose 2.3% in pre-market trading after Musk’s post, with some market analysts seeing signs that the relationship between Musk and Trump can improve again.
Shawn Campbell, adviser and investor at Camelthorn Investments, said Trump’s administration included people who had in the past said “some pretty nasty things” about him.
“So clearly this relationship can be restored, just likely not to where it once was,” said Campbell, who personally holds Tesla shares.
“The stakes between the richest man in the world and leader of the most powerful nation in the world are just so big, with billions of dollars of government contracts at stake, not to mention the power to investigate and regulate and tax.”
BIG DONOR
Musk bankrolled a large part of Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, spending nearly $300 million in last year’s U.S. elections and taking credit for Republicans retaining a majority of seats in the House and retaking a majority in the Senate.
Trump then named him to head an effort to downsize the federal workforce and slash spending.
Musk left the role late last month after criticizing Trump’s marquee tax bill, calling it too expensive and a measure that would undermine his work at the Department of Government Efficiency.
Declaring their relationship over on Saturday, Trump said there would be “serious consequences” if Musk decided to fund U.S. Democrats running against Republicans who vote for the tax and spending bill. Trump also said he had no intention of repairing ties with Musk.
On Monday, Trump said he would not have a problem if Musk called and that he had no plans to discontinue the Starlink satellite internet provided to the White House by Musk’s SpaceX but might move his Tesla off-site.
“We had a good relationship, and I just wish him well,” Trump said. Musk responded with a heart emoji to a video on X showing Trump’s remarks.
Tesla shares have recouped all the losses they suffered during the public feuding between Trump and Musk last Thursday, when more than $150 billion was wiped off the company’s market value.
Reporting Arpan Daniel Varghese, Akash Sriram, Sruthi Shankar and Gursimran Kaur; Writing by Gursimran Kaur in Bengaluru and Timothy Heritage, Editing by Philippa Fletcher
Netanyahu seeking to resolve a deadlock in his coalition over a new military conscription bill
FILE PHOTO: A drone view of Jerusalem with the Knesset, the Israeli parliament and the Israel Museum, in Jerusalem February 4, 2025. REUTERS/Ilan Rosenberg/File photo
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Israel’s parliament is set to hold a preliminary vote on Wednesday to dissolve itself following a dispute over conscription, a first step that could lead to an early election, which polls show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would lose.
The vote could still be pulled at the last minute, and even if it goes against Netanyahu, it would only be the first of four needed to bring forward elections.
This would give Netanyahu’s ruling coalition further time to resolve its worst political crisis yet and avoid a ballot, which would be Israel’s first since the eruption of the war with Hamas in Gaza.
Dissolving the Knesset would only be a victory for Israel’s enemies, said Boaz Bismuth, a lawmaker with Netanyahu’s Likud party. “During war this is the last thing Israel needs,” he told Reuters.
Netanyahu has been pushing hard to resolve a deadlock in his coalition over a new military conscription bill, which has led to the present crisis.
Some religious parties in Netanyahu’s coalition are seeking exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students from military service that is mandatory in Israel, while other lawmakers want to scrap any such exemptions altogether.
The exemptions have been a hot-button issue in Israel for years but have become particularly contentious during the war in Gaza, as Israel has suffered its highest battlefield casualties in decades and its stretched military is in need of more troops.
Growing increasingly impatient with the political deadlock, ultra-Orthodox coalition factions have said they will vote with opposition parties in favour of dissolving the Knesset and bringing forward an election that is not due until late 2026.
“It’s more than ever urgent to replace Netanyahu’s government and specifically this toxic and harmful government,” said Labour’s opposition lawmaker Merav Michaeli. “It’s urgent to end the war in Gaza and to bring back all the hostages. It’s urgent to start rebuilding and healing the state of Israel.”
MORE TIME
Opposition parties are likely to withdraw the dissolution bill if Netanyahu’s coalition resolves the crisis before the vote is held much later on Wednesday.
But even if it passes Wednesday’s reading, the bill’s final approval requires three more votes, giving Netanyahu’s coalition more time to come to agreements over conscription.
If passed, the dissolution bill will next go to parliament committee discussions in between readings, a legislation process which could take days, weeks or months. In this time, Netanyahu could still reach agreements with the ultra-Orthodox parties, his key political allies, and shoot the bill down.
To pass the final reading, the bill would need an absolute majority of at least 61 votes in the 120-seat parliament, called the Knesset in Hebrew, and an election will have to be held within five months.
Successive polls have predicted that Netanyahu’s coalition would lose in an election, with Israelis still reeling over the security failure of Palestinian militant group Hamas’ October 7 2023 attack and hostages still held in Gaza.
Hamas’ surprise attack led to Israel’s deadliest single day and shattered Netanyahu’s security credentials, with 1,200 people killed and 251 hostages taken into Gaza.
Israel’s offensive against Hamas in Gaza has since killed almost 55,000 Palestinians, according to health officials in the Hamas-run enclave, left much of the territory in ruins, and its more than two million population largely displaced and gripped by a humanitarian crisis.
Twenty months into the fighting, public support for the Gaza war has waned. More than 400 Israeli soldiers have been killed in combat there, adding to anger many Israelis feel over the ultra-Orthodox exemption demands even as the war drags on.
Ultra-Orthodox religious leaders, however, see full-time devotion to religious studies as sacrosanct and military service as a threat to the students’ strict religious lifestyle.
Writing by Maayan Lubell; Editing by Crispian Balmer, William Maclean
An index tracking British homebuilder shares was last up 2.36% at its highest since November
FILE PHOTO: A general view shows the Barnsbury Estate in the London borough of Islington, Britain September 20, 2015. Photograph taken September 20, 2015. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor/File Photo
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British homebuilder shares rose sharply on Wednesday, ahead a public spending announcement from the UK finance minister that is expected to confirm 39 billion pounds ($52.54 billion) of funding for affordable homes in the next decade.
An index tracking British homebuilder shares was last up 2.36% at its highest since November, building on Tuesday’s 5.4% gain.
Vistry shares rose nearly 9%, and topped the broad European STOXX 600 share index. Peers Crest Nicholson and Bellway rose 5.2% and 2.5%.
Around 9:25PM on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, police and other first responders were dispatched to a report of a serious multi-vehicle collision on North Shore Road in Devonshire, in the area of Northshore Medical.
Several individuals have reported injuries, including one male who is believed to have sustained serious injuries. Emergency medical personnel attended the scene, and injured parties have been transported to King Edward Memorial for treatment.
At this time, the circumstances surrounding the collision remain unclear. A full investigation is underway.
Traffic is currently being diverted via Dock Hill and Bandroom Lane while police process the scene. Motorists are advised to use alternative routes no traffic including buses will be allow to pass through the scene.
The Bermuda Police Service thanks the public for their patience and cooperation.
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