Category: Business & Economy

US stocks rose Friday and trimmed their losses from a shaky week. That was even though the bond market, which has been the centre of Wall Street’s action, remained jumpy and continued to…

Dutch data-protection authorities have fined Uber nearly US$1 billion, saying the ride-hailing company used automated software to suspend driver accounts, sometimes permanently, with no human review to check for mistakes. The Dutch Data…

Japan’s economy grew at an annual rate of 1.1 per cent in the April-June quarter even as private consumption stayed flat and the growth of exports declined, according to government data recently released….

Digicel Group consumed a fifth more energy across its 25-market network in the fiscal year ended March 2026, as surging customer data demand and hurricane recovery operations pushed greenhouse gas emissions higher, according…

Telecom provider Digicel Group revealed that Ruby, its artificial intelligence (AI)- powered assistant, now successfully resolves more than half of the queries routed through it in Jamaica without human involvement. Ruby augments rather…

A rise in oil prices on Thursday is sending worries about inflation and yields in the bond market higher, erasing some of the relief the United States Treasury Department created the day before….

PROVEN Group Ltd swung to a net profit of US$8.2 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2027, reversing a loss of US$2.6 million in the corresponding period a year earlier. The…

Pan Jamaica Group Limited (PJG) has acquired the property housing Discount Pharmacy on the corner of Constant Spring and Olivier roads in upper St Andrew, giving the conglomerate ownership of three contiguous properties…

Seprod Limited reported net profit of $688 million for the second quarter ended June 30, 2026, a 16 per cent increase over the year-earlier levels, as disciplined expense management compensated for a three…

Hotel Four Seasons, the 114-room hospitality property on Ruthven Road in New Kingston, has returned to the market at US$13.5 million, reflecting a discount from its listing five years earlier. The property is…