Business
January 9, 2026
by Neville Graham
WIPT stock climbs 11-fold in two weeks
West Indies Petroleum Terminal Ltd. (WIPT) stock climbed above $5.60 in Thursday trading, or 11 times its listing price some two weeks earlier, reflecting a rally driven more by scarcity than…
January 9, 2026
Cash holdings in investment schemes up 40% to $18.5 billion
Jamaica’s securities dealers are sitting on relatively high levels of cash within a market affected by uncertainty. Cash holdings in local collective investment schemes (CIS) surged 40.2 percent to…
January 9, 2026
Job openings slide to 2nd-lowest level in five years
US employers posted far fewer jobs in November than the previous month, a sign that employers are not yet ramping up hiring even as growth has picked up. Businesses and government agencies posted 7.1…
January 9, 2026
California loses $160m for delaying revocation of 17,000 commercial driver’s licences for immigrants
California will lose US$160 million for delaying the revocations of 17,000 commercial driver’s licences for immigrants, federal transportation officials announced on Wednesday. Transportation…
January 9, 2026
Google and chatbot maker Character to settle lawsuit alleging chatbot pushed teen to suicide
Google and artificial intelligence chatbot maker Character Technologies have agreed to settle a lawsuit from a Florida, USA mother who alleged that a chatbot pushed her teenage son to kill himself.…
January 9, 2026
Trump wants to ban large investors from buying houses
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he wants to block large institutional investors from buying houses, saying that a ban would make it easier for younger families to buy their first homes.
January 9, 2026
Gmail to become personal AI assistant
More artificial intelligence (AI) is being implanted into Gmail as Google tries to turn the world’s most popular email service into a personal assistant that can improve writing, summarise far-flung…
January 9, 2026
January 9, 2026