Category: Business & Economy

Consumer inflation remained persistently high last month, boosted by gas, rents, auto insurance and other items, the United States government said Wednesday in a report that will likely give pause to the Federal…

In the face of a 13 per cent reduction in the price of granular fertiliser by market leader Newport-Fersan, the producer and commercial supplier of the agricultural input is urging farmers and other…

A dozen proposals are currently being evaluated by the Jamaican government’s Generation Procurement Entity, GPE, for the supply of 100 megawatts of renewable energy to the national power grid. It forms part of…

The Biden administration pledged on Monday to provide up to US$6.6 billion so that a Taiwanese semiconductor giant can expand the facilities it is already building in Arizona and better ensure that the…

With contracting margins in other divisions and limited markets for the time being, Seprod subsidiary A.S. Bryden…

Despite salary increases, persons in the lower-middle to upper-middle income bracket and the typical senior civil servant are hard-pressed to balance their household budgets, and real estate purchases are feeling the knock-on effects,…

A fourth-quarter purple patch for players of the lottery and sports betting games offered by Supreme Ventures Limited, SVL, put more winnings in their pockets and shrank profit by a fifth at the…

The Jamaican Government plans to start generating real-time data on the millions of persons entering the country by air and sea, using face scans and other biometric information that will be accessible by…

Federal Reserve officials will likely reduce their benchmark interest rate later this year, Chair Jerome Powell said on Wednesday, despite recent reports showing that the United States economy is still strong and that…

The success of the Shorty bread line has prompted baking company Honey Bun to invest a billion dollars in its expansion. A new production facility is to be set up at the MJS…