Digicel bond offering oversubscribed
DIGICEL RAISED US$300 million from international investors yesterday from an extremely successful bond offering led by Citigroup and J.P. Morgan. The issue yielded 9.25 per cent maturing in September 2012...
JSE launches new website
THE JAMAICA Stock Exchange (JSE), has launched its new website, a move to better fulfil its mandate of providing a better service. The new website boasts a real-time stock ticker, the latest market information.
Little immediate impact from Chinese revaluation
CHINA'S REVALUATION of its currency will have little immediate impact on Jamaican businesses, but watch out, business analysts say. The yuan, China's national currency, was revalued by some two per cent yesterday...
Ed McKie - 15 years and going strong in stocks
IN 1990, Ed McKie and a group of partners formed M/VL Stockbrokers Limited and made his debut on the floor of the Jamaica Stock Exchange.Armed with approximately six orders from friends and former business contacts, he started a new career...
LoJ expects to have good second quarter
CHAIRMAN OF Life of Jamaica, J. Arthur Bethell, says that the insurance giant expects to have a good second quarter once the numbers are finally in. "We have seen the June numbers and they are going to be released shortly ...
Scratching our heads for solutions
THE MANY problems that Jamaica is undergoing at this time have prompted many to call for wholesale foreign assistance to solve these problems. Foreign assistance is always welcome, especially if it's objective...
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