Business

When I first saw the headline to the article I wrote last Sunday – Illiteracy as a societal risk – I immediately sent a congratulatory message to the business editor. Those five words captured the substance of the ideas I struggled to present. Even...

Marc Rosenberg, founder and CEO of The Edge Desk in Deerfield, Illinois is getting ready to introduce a fancy ergonomic chair designed to reduce customers’ back pain and boost their productivity. He figures the most expensive one will sell for more...

After 12 months of outperforming the rest of the world, the United States market faces a potential correction, and prudent investors and business leaders are watching developments closely and hedging their risks accordingly. Amid falling consumer...

Bonds have a place in balanced investment portfolios but are particularly attractive to conservative investors because they are confident about the certainty of their principal and the interest they expect to earn. Although they tend to be safer...

A United States-based fintech firm is currently recruiting at least 20 software engineers for a project here in Jamaica that will see them earning a starting salary of $10 million per year. But insiders in the tech sector say it is not unusual for...

The European Central Bank, ECB, has cut interest rates by another quarter percentage point to boost growth, lowering credit costs for consumers and businesses to support an economy that is struggling to grow, and could soon face even stronger...

MFS Capital Partners Limited has delivered the outstanding financial reports cited in its suspension last year, but the block on the trading of the stock was still in force up to market close on Thursday. The company filed three reports that were...

After posting record revenue, air quality company CAC 2000 Limited is back in the black with net profit of $22.26 million last year. This is transitioning from a net loss of $98.23 million in 2023, and comes as revenue rocketed from $823 million to...

Catherine Bashiama runs her fingers along the branches of the coffee tree she’s raised from a seedling, searching anxiously for its first fruit buds since she planted it three years ago. When she grasps the small cherries, Bashiama beams. The...

Online education provider One On One Educational Services Limited says it will soon be rolling out its artificial intelligence powered system that will, among other things, make the writing of lesson plans quicker and easier for teachers across the...

Jamaica Public Service Company Limited, JPS, says it is building an electricity grid that can withstand the effect of a Category 5 hurricane should it hit the island. JPS President and CEO Hugh Grant said following the extensive damage to the grid...

The United States Treasury Department announced it will not enforce a Biden-era small business rule intended to curb money laundering and shell company formation. In a Sunday evening announcement, Treasury said in a news release that it will not...