{"id":545324,"date":"2026-04-22T21:25:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/545324\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T21:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:25:17","slug":"jersey-businesses-express-hope-despite-costs-up-and-profits-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/545324\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey businesses express hope despite costs up and profits down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Businesses in Jersey have said while their costs are rising and profits are weakening, they are hopeful for the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The latest report by Statistics Jersey surveyed 500 businesses in the island, asking how they were feeling about their current state, based on the first quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It revealed 41% of Jersey&#8217;s finance companies saw an increase in staffing costs, and nearly half of non-finance companies in the island reported weak activity and a loss of profitability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among the 290 respondents, however, there was a general consensus that business activity over the next three months will increase across both finance and non-finance sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Businesses in Jersey have said while their costs are rising and profits are weakening, they are hopeful for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-545324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}