At the Jamaica Stock Exchange conference last week, in a presentation entitled “Boom, Bust and Recoveries”, Oppenheimer's chief investment strategist John Stoltzfus stated that his target for the US S&P 500 index for end 2018 is 3,000 points. This was actually initiated on December 8 last year, and is based

FINANCE and the Public Service Minister Audley Shaw has announced that the Financial Investigations Division (FID), which falls under his ministry, is to become an independent government department. He said the decision will afford the FID greater autonomy and independence, similar to what is contemplated for the Major Organised Crime

SHAW ... Jamaica has been positioned in a whole new light in the eyes of our international creditors Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw, says that the Jamaican economy is projected to grow by just over one per cent for the 2017/18 fiscal year. The finance minister

TUFTON... we will have the capabilities right here in Jamaica to be among the leaders in cancer treatment and care in the Caribbean IN recognition of World Cancer Day on February 4, Minister of Health Dr Christopher Tufton reaffirmed that Jamaica is now in a position to provide world-class cancer

Steven Gooden, president of the Jamaica Securities Dealers Association and CEO of NCB Capital Markets Limited. Steven Gooden, president of the Jamaica Security Dealers Association, JSDA, says that while the Government of Jamaica has been asking for lower interest rates and more flexible financing terms for business, its own regulatory

Published:Friday | February 2, 2018 | 12:00 AM Jamaican pension funds are investing more in equities and less in direct holdings of real estate, the Financial Services Commission, FSC, noted in updates on the market this week. The drift away from government securities also continues, even as pension assets have

Orville 'Shaggy' Burrell (left) and partners in the 2018 staging of the Shaggy Make a Difference concert are delighted as they pose with the replica of the $100 million cheque. The Bustamante Hospital  For Children today received $100 million from the Shaggy Make a Difference Foundation, hitting the target which

The Trinidad and Tobago Securities and Exchange Commission is probing the takeover bid by NCB Financial Group of  the publicly traded Trinidadian insurance company Guardian Holdings. The Commission's chief executive, Haydn Gittens, told the Trinidad Express newspaper that concerns about the transaction were brought to the agency and it is

At a recently held social dinner, it was revealed that many civil servants plan to take the Government's early retirement package plan to use that lump sum to become debt-free. However, when asked how they plan to replace their income as employees, the same respondents said that the monthly pension

Jamaica's “bond king”, Gregory Fisher, in his opening speech at the 12th Jamaican Stock Exchange Conference, quoted approvingly Sandals CEO Adam Stewart. “In 45 years, we have not seen the confluence of events that's taking place right now – inflation at four per cent, unemployment at 11.3 per cent, and