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Published:Friday | December 19, 2025 | 12:11 AM

Global online forum Reddit on Friday filed a court challenge to Australia’s world first law that bans Australian children younger than 16 from holding accounts on the world’s most popular social media platforms. California based Reddit Inc.’s suit...

Published:Friday | December 19, 2025 | 12:11 AM

Crypto.com was under siege. For more than a year, the firm had been investigated by President Joe Biden’s Democratic administration, part of an aggressive push to regulate the largely unregulated cryptocurrency industry. Financial regulators had...

Published:Friday | December 19, 2025 | 12:11 AM

Japan’s exports climbed 6.0 per cent in November from a year earlier, with shipments to the United States rising for the first time since March as uncertainties over tariffs abated following a trade deal with the Trump administration. The...

Published:Friday | December 19, 2025 | 12:11 AM

Writer Sophie Kinsella, whose effervescent rom com Confessions of a Shopaholic sparked a million-selling series, died on December 10, her family said. She was 55 and had been diagnosed with brain cancer. The family said in a statement on Kinsella’s...

Published:Friday | December 19, 2025 | 12:11 AM

A posthumous memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s best known accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, has sold one-million copies worldwide two months after its release. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Tuesday that more than half the sales for Nobody’...

Published:Friday | December 19, 2025 | 12:11 AM

A quarterly survey of major Japanese manufacturers released Monday shows business sentiment improving to its best level in four years, even after President Trump raised tariffs on goods from the United States ally to a baseline level of 15 per cent...

Published:Friday | December 19, 2025 | 12:11 AM

Illinois’ public transit systems got a US$1.5-billion annual infusion on Friday as Governor JB Pritzker signed a law overhauling Chicago’s web of buses and trains, sparing it from devastating service cuts and pledging upgraded performance and...

Published:Friday | December 19, 2025 | 12:10 AM

Poultry producer Jamaica Broilers Group (JBG) has returned to a positive capital position following an upswing in its assets, according to its latest second quarter financials. “The group completed the revaluation of its land and buildings, adding...

Published:Friday | December 19, 2025 | 12:10 AM

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman to be NASA administrator, placing him atop the agency after a months-long saga where President Donald Trump revoked his nomination as part of a feud with tech billionaire...

Published:Friday | December 19, 2025 | 12:10 AM

Private equity firm MFS Capital Partners Limited has completed a strategic portfolio clean-up, disposing of two dormant subsidiaries — Muse 360 Integrated Limited and Bar Central Limited — as part of its renewed focus on core financial services....

Published:Friday | December 19, 2025 | 12:10 AM

Tourism-related companies listed on the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) have been dealt a blow from Hurricane Melissa which will impact them well into 2026, according to large brokerage firm NCB Capital in a notice to clients this week. “The outlook...

Published:Friday | December 19, 2025 | 12:10 AM

Proven Management Limited, investment manager of Proven Group Limited, announced plans to partner with Cornerstone Group, which indirectly holds the second largest stake in Proven through its subsidiary, Barita Investments. The collaboration is...

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2025 | 12:10 AM

A private equity firm owned by President Donald Trump’s son in law, Jared Kushner, is no longer backing Paramount’s hostile acquisition bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, the firm confirmed on Tuesday. Days after Warner agreed to be bought by Netflix...

Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:09 AM

Salada Foods Jamaica Limited will close out 2025 with record revenues, a new sorrel-flavoured drink, and a US$302,000 (J$50-million) investment in an X-ray machine to improve the quality of its core coffee products. General Manager Tamii Brown said...

Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:08 AM

Since he started growing cannabis at 14, Mohamed Makhlouf has lived in the shadows, losing sleep while bracing for a knock on his door from authorities that could mean prison or his entire harvest confiscated. But after decades of operating in...

Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:07 AM

Ford Motor Co is pivoting away from its once ambitious electric vehicle (EV) plans amid financial losses and waning consumer demand for the vehicles, in favour of investment in more efficient gas engines and hybrid EVs, the company said on Monday....

Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:07 AM

Sagicor Group Jamaica Ltd said on Tuesday it will merge with Sagicor Life Inc, unifying operations under a new holding company, Sagicor Group Caribbean, and in the process create a US$6.9-billion entity. The deal, struck with parent Sagicor...

Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:07 AM

The United States gained a decent 64,000 jobs in November but lost 105,000 in October as federal workers departed after cutbacks by the Trump administration, the government said in delayed reports. The unemployment rate rose to 4.6 per cent last...

Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:06 AM

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday pressuring states not to regulate artificial intelligence. Trump and some Republicans argue that the limited regulations already enacted by states, and others that might follow, will...

Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:06 AM

The effects of Hurricane Melissa on Jamaica continue to resonate across all sectors. While more attention has been given to what we label as negative effects, there are more than the residual positive effects on many sectors. For example, there are...

Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:05 AM

TUI Group, one of the world’s largest tour operators, has reported slower-than-usual winter bookings following Hurricane Melissa’s impact in Jamaica, but maintains a positive outlook. The Germany-based company will also pivot towards capturing...

Published:Wednesday | December 17, 2025 | 12:05 AM

The financial conglomerate Scotia Group Jamaica (SGJ) made $20 billion profit for its October 2025 financial year, or roughly $150 million less than a year ago, as provisions tied to Hurricane Melissa offset otherwise steady banking operations. The...

Published:Tuesday | December 16, 2025 | 3:02 PM

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As financial institutions quietly integrate blockchain into cross‑border payment flows, attention is shifting from retail trading to real‑world infrastructure. The XRP price still dominates headlines, but inside banks and payment firms, the focus is on what the XRP Ledger can actually do for settlement speed, liquidity management, and regulatory compliance.

Published:Tuesday | December 16, 2025 | 3:02 PM

Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are moving from observation to action as the Ethereum ecosystem grows in size and complexity. The ethereum price is no longer viewed only as a speculative chart but as a signal attached to infrastructure that now underpins trading venues, lending protocols and tokenised assets.

Europe’s MiCA Rulebook Comes Into Force

Published:Tuesday | December 16, 2025 | 12:08 AM

Wall Street is losing ground on Monday at the start of a week full of economic reports that could drive where interest rates, and thus stock prices, go. The S...

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