The Bermuda Stock Exchange rose 9.05 closing at 1,187.35 after a busy day of trading which saw 46,538 shares changing hands at a value of $146,498.04.

KeyTech Ltd increased 13.8 percent, or 0.74, after 11,485 shares changed hands at 6.09.

Bank of NT Butterfield was the big mover seeing 26,473 move at an unchanged 1.49.

Some 7,000 shares of Polaris Holdings moved at an unchanged value, at 3.05, and Ascendant Group Limited declined 0.01 to 10.00 after 1,580 shares changed hands.