Foreign Investors Shun Caribbean Posted on May 6, 2009May 6, 2009 by Your Financial FactSheet Jamaica Gleaner: “Foreign investors shun Caribbean” The United Nations warned on Monday that the slump in foreign investment in developing countries like those in the Caribbean last year was likely to continue for the next two years. Jamaica Observer: “Latest economic data suggests recession (U.S.) is easing” WASHINGTON, USA – Evidence that housing is poised to improve and optimism about the results of banking “stress tests” raised hopes Monday that the recession is easing in the United States and helped lift a key stock market measure into the black for the year.