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Jamaican Business News
Supreme optimism
Despite having to write off plans to expand into Trinidad and facing higher liabilities for its main revenue earner, Cash Pot, Supreme Ventures executives are projecting an 85 per cent increase in net profit for 2008.
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A respite from high gas prices
Jamaican consumers can expect a slight ease in gasoline prices over the next few months as concerns over a US recession will likely push the price of its main input - oil - downwards in the near future, believes Dr Raymond Wright, consultant and...
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Bookmakers once again seek amendments to licensing requirements
For years local bookmakers have been trying to get government to make amendments to regulations that they say would ease the stranglehold that bureaucratic red tape has on expansion of the business.
At the forefront of the bookmakers' ire is the...
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International Business News
Canadian dollar stays at 8-month low; stocks rise
TORONTO -- Stock markets advanced Wednesday morning in the wake of data showing a strong resurgence in U.S. consumer spending in November. The Canadian dollar was at an eight-month low.
U.S. retailers saw sales rise by one per cent last...
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Oil prices fall on rising supply from non-OPEC nations, mild US weather
NEW YORK (AP) - Crude oil prices slid yesterday, as the market gauged OPEC nations' commitment to cutting oil production and the effect of a mild US autumn on fuel supplies.
Also deflating prices, Iraq resumed pumping oil out of a pipeline in the...
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French economic growth stagnates
Economic growth in France stagnated in the third quarter of the year, official figures show.
Statistics agency Insee reported zero growth between July and September - after a 1.2% expansion in the previous three months.
The abrupt slowdown has...
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