Category: Business & Economy

Your CEO has a strong ego. Most successful ones do. It carried him through the growth years, and it now sits at the centre of every conversation about the company’s future. Right now,…

Shares of Royal Caribbean Group fell 6.1 per cent on Tuesday after the Financial Times (FT) reported that the cruise operator stands close to a deal to acquire a majority stake in Sandals…

Skydance-owned Paramount reached a settlement Monday with a group of state attorneys general that had sued to challenge the company’s buyout of Warner Bros Discovery, effectively paving the way for the mega merger…

Japan’s central bank on Friday raised the benchmark interest rate to 1.25 per cent from 1.0 per cent, a 31-year-high. The Bank of Japan has been trying to normalise monetary policy after decades…

Jamaica raised US$1 billion from the international capital markets on Wednesday at a coupon of 6.25 per cent, the lowest coupon the country has paid on an international bond. It was the government’s…

Innovative Energy Group (IEG) wants to enter property development to augment its solar-installation business, and would seek approval to use legacy tax losses from the Ciboney Group, a listed entity it acquired. “The…

The Financial Investigations Division (FID) has gone to market for a real estate brokerage firm to sell 11 properties taken from criminals, the first concrete step towards the privately run disposal programme the…

Aren’t you tired of dealing with successive government administrations that do not get it? Aren’t you fed up with the utter fraud of continuing to bow to the King of England as Jamaica’s…

There are few instances in economic life when the business community can expect a tangible return on an external shift without cutting another cheque, and the dramatic fall in Jamaica’s murder rate ought…

Jamaican business leaders expect inflation to ease to 6.8 per cent by December, even as a growing share anticipate that the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) will raise interest rates. The central bank’s July…