Google has started selling a long-delayed budget smartphone boasting the same high-quality camera and several other features available in fancier Pixel models that cost hundreds of dollars more. The Pixel 4a, unveiled on Monday, will be available...
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) combined index declined on Wednesday with an advance/decline ratio of 39/32. The index moved down by 2,686.69 points or 0.72 per cent to close at 367,927.25. The JSE Main Market Index declined by 2,630.02...
Mapco Printers, a company that has operated in Jamaica for 34 years and holds a tenth of the market, has struck a deal that will see the outsourcing of its print productions to competitor Lithographic Printers. The production partnership falls...
Following on the announcement of an increase in fees and new charges, largely due to what it said was the cost attached to its digitisation programme to facilitate service delivery in accordance with social-distancing requirements, JN Bank has...
OP-ED CONTRIBUTION: DATA LAW In an earlier article, we considered the first data protection standard established under the recently passed Data Protection Act 2020, the DPA. This article, the second of a three-part series, will provide a basic...
Eppley Limited, which mainly provides loan financing and manages a real estate fund, has extended the life of one of its four preference stocks by three years, a refinancing deal that will allow it to hang on to cash for other purposes. The Eppley...
Thailand’s Cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal from the Public Health Ministry that would allow health professionals, farmers and medical patients to grow, produce and export cannabis and its products. Deputy government spokeswoman Trisulee...
Federal regulators in the United States outlined a list of design changes they will require in the Boeing 737 Max to fix safety issues that were discovered after two deadly crashes that led to the worldwide grounding of the plane. The US Federal...
A federal judge on Monday ruled that it is unconstitutional to deny Puerto Ricans living in the United States territory access to three federal welfare programmes in a major decision cheered by many. However, the judge also granted a two-month...
JSE, IDB sign support agreement for social exchange The Inter-American Development Bank,IDB, is giving grant support of US$420,000 towards the Jamaica Social Stock Exchange, the JSSE, a unit of the Jamaica Stock Exchange, JSE. The funds will...
The Jamaica Stock Exchange Combined Index declined on Tuesday with an advance/decline ratio of 35/35. The JSE index moved down by 3,539.94 points or 0.95 per cent to close at 370,613.94. The JSE Main Market Index declined by 4.032.21 points or 1.07...
Campus Elite Ja has launched an online platform called ‘Campus Elite Opportunity Network’ exclusively for Jamaican university students and is geared towards assisting students with employment and financial opportunities during the COVID...
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Combined Index advanced on Monday with an advance/decline ratio of 39/30. The index moved up by 5,475.06 points or 1.49 per cent to close at 374,153.88. The JSE Main Market Index advanced by 5,796.89 points or 1.56...
ADVISORY COLUMN: PERSONAL FINANCIAL ADVISER QUESTION: I am about to retire and would like some information about annuities. – Janet FINANCIAL ADVISER: An annuity is a contract between two parties – the issuer and the annuitant – whereby the...
Jamaica’s export-import bank is lending support to the export initiative out of investment promotion agency Jampro, which helps entrepreneurs with market access. The programme is now in its third cohort, with 48 small and medium companies...
ADVISORY COLUMN: SMALL BUSINESS QUESTION: I must congratulate you on the great work you have been doing to help small business. I am a young entrepreneur who has only been in business for 15 months, and your articles and social media posts are...
Jamaican stock market investors are trading more online, with volumes already surpassing the levels seen in all of 2019, due in part to lockdown measures against the coronavirus. It shows that while slow, there is incremental transition to online...
In the first of a new class of listings, Jamaica’s largest credit union has introduces shares on the main market of the Jamaica Stock Exchange. Community...
OP-ED CONTRIBUTION: EMERGING MARKET ADVISER Paraguay is one of the most interesting countries in Latin America; with a complex history and a unique culture. It is also one of the better managed economies of the region. Like its neighbour Bolivia,...
F reed from its lossmaking sugar operation, Seprod Limited more than doubled its net earnings in the quarter ending June. The company also grew sales by double digits, while keeping spending in check – gains that flowed from the consolidation of...
Jamaica wants to develop over 500 megawatts of new energy projects generated mostly but not exclusively from nature, with plans to get investors to bid on a portion of that capacity, starting early next year. “It is envisioned that competition...
The United States economy shrank at a dizzying 32.9 per cent annual rate in the April-June quarter — by far the worst quarterly plunge ever — when the viral outbreak shut down businesses, throwing tens of millions out of work and sending...
