Barbados Stock Exchange
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The Barbados Stock Exchange or BSE is Barbados
Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...

' main stock exchange. Its headquarters are in the capital-city Bridgetown
Bridgetown
The city of Bridgetown , metropolitan pop 96,578 , is the capital and largest city of the nation of Barbados. Formerly, the Town of Saint Michael, the Greater Bridgetown area is located within the parish of Saint Michael...

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The Barbados Stock Exchange is among the four major regional Caribbean stock exchanges. The other three being the exchanges of Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

, the Eastern Caribbean, and Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...

. The BSE is the third largest stock exchange in the Caribbean region. The BSE along with officials from Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago are working to integrate these stock exchanges into a single unit known as the Caribbean Exchange Network (CXN) The Trinidad and Tobago exchange has mooted the establishment of some form of association with the U.S. or Canadian based stock exchanges going forward.

At present, officials at the stock exchange are investigating the possibility of augmenting the local exchange with an International Securities Market (ISM) venture.

The BSE is one of twenty-seven correspondent members of the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE).

Listed companies

  • Almond Resorts Inc. -- ARI site
  • ANSA McAL (Barbados) Ltd. -- MCAL site
  • Banks Holdings Ltd. -- BHL site
  • Barbados Dairy Industries Ltd. (Pine Hill Dairy) -- BDI
  • Barbados Farms Ltd. -- BFL
  • Barbados National Bank Inc. -- BNB site
  • Barbados Shipping & Trading Co. Ltd. -- BST site
  • Bico Ltd. -- BCO
  • Cable & Wireless Barbados Ltd. -- CWBL site
  • Cave Shepherd & Co. Ltd. -- CSP site
  • FirstCaribbean International Bank
    FirstCaribbean International Bank
    CIBC FirstCaribbean International Bank , is a publicly held Caribbean financial services company based in Barbados. Formed in 2002 as a merge the Caribbean operations of Barclays Bank PLC and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce , in March 2006 both CIBC and Barclays announced that Barclays wished...

     -- FCI
  • Fortress Caribbean Property Fund—CPF site
  • Goddard Enterprises Ltd. -- GDE site
  • Insurance Corporation of Barbados Ltd—ICBL site
  • Jamaica Money Market Brokers Ltd. -- JMMB site
  • Light & Power Holdings Ltd. -- LPH site
  • Light & Power Holdings Ltd. 5.5% Pref -- LPH55 site
  • Neal & Massy Holdings Ltd. -- NML site
  • One Caribbean Media Ltd. -- OCM site
  • Sagicor Financial Corporation -- SFC site
  • Sagicor Financial Corporation 6.5% Pref -- SFC65 site
  • Trinidad Cement Ltd -- TCL site
  • The West India Biscuit Company Ltd
    WIBISCO
    The West India Biscuit Company better known as WIBISCO is a company located in Barbados. The products made are biscuits, crackers, cookies etc. The company is currently listed on the Barbados Stock Exchange. For the year 2006, product sales stood at $16.8 million dollars.The company is somewhat...

    . -- WIB site
  • West Indies Rum Distillery Ltd. -- WIR site
  • Royal Fidelity TIGRS A Fund -- RFTA site
  • Royal Fidelity TIGRS A1 Fund -- RFTA1 site

Formerly listed companies

  • A.S. Brydens & Sons Ltd. -- ASB
  • BWIA West Indies Ltd. -- BWIA
  • Courts (Barbados) Ltd. -- CTS
  • Life of Barbados Ltd -- LOB: Now Sagicor Financial Corporation
  • RBTT Financial Holdings Ltd. -- RBTT
  • GraceKennedy Ltd -- GKC
  • Sunbeach Communications Inc. -- SBH

Other companies: List of Barbadian companies

See also

  • Economy
    Economics
    Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

    , Economy of Barbados
    Economy of Barbados
    Since achieving independence in 1966, the island nation of Barbados has transformed itself from a low-income economy dependent upon sugar production, into an upper-middle-income economy based on tourism and the offshore sector. Barbados went into a deep recession in the 1990s after 3 years of...

    , Barbados
    Barbados
    Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...

    , Barbadian dollar
  • Eastern Caribbean Securities Exchange
    Eastern Caribbean Securities Exchange
    The Eastern Caribbean Securities Exchange is the first regional securities market in the Western Hemisphere and a regional Stock exchange, established by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank to serve the eight member territories of Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint...

  • Guyana Stock Exchange
    Guyana Stock Exchange
    The Guyana Stock Exchange is the newest exchange in the Caribbean Community bloc of countries. Trading began June 30, 2003 and takes place weekly via word of mouth on the trading floor supported by an electronic limit order book. Several companies in Trinidad and Tobago have considered...

  • Jamaica Stock Exchange
    Jamaica Stock Exchange
    The Jamaica Stock Exchange is the principal stock exchange of Jamaica. It is known as the JSE. It was founded in 1968 in Kingston, Jamaica and its current executive chairman is Mr Roy Johnson....

  • Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange
    Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange
    The Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange is the main stock exchange in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Currently the leading stock exchange in the Caribbean region , the Trinidad and Tobago stock exchange caters mostly to the strong financial position of many indigenous companies incorporated...


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