“Its Jammin: Jamaica Tiny Stock Market Conquers World in 2015”
Jamaica may bring to mind rum, daiquiris and Bob Marley but its stock market had a better year than any other across the globe.
Amid the middling returns of the world’s best known indexes — the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped about 1 percent, the Euro Stoxx 50 lost 6 percent in dollar terms — foreign acquisitions, stronger investor safeguards and a rebounding economy helped the Jamaica Stock Exchange surge more than 80 percent in 2015.
