Business

China announced a barrage of measures meant to counter the blow to its economy from the US trade war, as the two sides prepared for talks later this week. Beijing’s central bank governor and other top financial officials outlined plans Wednesday to...

The United States Justice Department is doubling down on its attempt to break up Google by asking a federal judge to force the company to part with some of the technology powering the company’s digital ad network. The proposed dismantling coincides...

The South Texas home of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company is now an official city with a galactic name: Starbase. A vote last Saturday to formally organise Starbase as a city was approved by a lopsided margin among the small group of voters who...

GraceKennedy Limited is currently piloting a new organic fertiliser, which makes use of waste generated from its agro park operation in St Elizabeth. David Crum-Ewing, operations executive at GK Foods...

International monetary and financial systems may not be immutable, but nor do they change often. That is why the upheaval spurred by US President Donald Trump’s trade and tariff war is so remarkable – and difficult to decipher. To figure out what...

Having boosted its assets with the purchase of an operating business, MFS Capital Partners Limited has reaffirmed its goal of reaching $1 billion in revenue in two years. CEO Dino Hinds said MFS Capital is looking towards its new subsidiary,...

The shoe company Skechers is being acquired for more than $9 billion and will be taken private by the investment firm 3G Capital. The deal comes amid growing uncertainty over how US tariffs on foreign goods will affect companies who make their...

Apple CEO Tim Cook said Thursday that the majority of iPhones sold in the United States in the current fiscal quarter will be sourced from India, while iPads and other devices will come from Vietnam as the company works to avoid the impact of...

United States President Donald Trump thinks America is only for Americans. The US dollar, by contrast, is for everyone. Should the BRICS grouping of emerging economies create a new currency, Trump has tweeted, or “back any other currency to replace...

Kamla Persad-Bissessar created history on Thursday, when she took the oath of office, becoming the first woman to be sworn in as prime minister of Trinidad...

The Jamaican castor oil industry has not been able to shed the perception of being an enterprise for the ‘small man’, largely because the potential earnings mainly flow to counterfeit products on the market that are falsely labelled as Jamaican,...

Last December, I argued that while some of US President Donald Trump’s policies would be stagflationary – reducing growth and raising inflation – such effects would ultimately be mitigated by four factors: market discipline, an independent US...