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Why Australia needs Singapore
Exchange merger not an ambush By Maurice Newman After 50 years trying to persuade governments of all colours to position Australia as a regional financial centre, I have been forced to recognize the...
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William Watson: Mexican miracle
Are taxes why that other U.S. neighbour is thriving? The Bank of Canada’s “communications initiatives” group is putting out a new communications initiative: a short quarterly newsletter titled “Where’s...
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Terence Corcoran: Toyota’s media car crash
Irresponsible news outlets caused this wreck A year ago in this space I wrote: “Toyota is already the victim of one of the most irresponsible and destructive bouts of media thuggery in history.” On...
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Terence Corcoran: Exchange merger is worth a tweet
A good bet that LSE-TMX deal will be approved Where’s the tweet? Industry Minister Tony Clement, recently seen creating instant telecom policy via Twitter, apparently has a different approach to the...
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Standard Life uses YouTube to explain employer pension plans
The financial literacy bandwagon gained further momentum today when Standard Life announced the launch of three YouTube videos to help pension plan members better understand their financial statements....
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Lawrence Solomon: Ford’s blow for film freedom
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford recently came to the rescue of Reg Hartt, an individual who had run afoul of the law. Hartt’s violation? As explained by city authorities, he was illicitly running “a place of...
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Ontario’s Power Trip: Big Becky’s budget gets bigger
Tunnelling costs jumped from $600-million to $1.2-billion By Parker Gallant Ontario Energy Minister Brad Duguid was in Niagara Falls this week with a local MPP and a school bus of media types to...
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Jack Mintz: Cut personal taxes
After cutting corporate taxes, Ottawa should next reduce the $440-billion personal tax burden As Terence Corcoran demonstrated the other day, the subsidy machine keeps rolling on as sector after sector...
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Peter Foster: China backs shale revolution
$5.4B investment in Encana shows importance of ‘unconventional’ gas Encana’s announcement on Wednesday of a proposed $5.4-billion investment by PetroChina in its shale gas operations confirms the...
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Does the financial services industry profit from financial illiterates?
Earlier this week, this blog looked at the just-released report from the Task Force on Financial Literacy. It passed on all the praise from the financial industry: financial planners, mutual funds,...
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BMO promotes electronic trading expert
Bank of Montreal has tapped electronic trading expert Rizwan Awan to head of its quantitative execution services group in Toronto. Mr. Awan, who joined BMO Capital Markets in 2005 to help the bank...
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Developers ‘elated’ over Nokia, Microsoft deal
Investors were unimpressed on Friday with Nokia Corp.’s plan to extinguish its “burning” Symbian mobile platform with Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Phone 7 software. Yet mobile application developers could...
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FP Marketing: Justin Bieber nail polish sells out in record time
Justin Bieber’s line of OPI nail polish First he conquered Twitter. Now, Justin Bieber has taken the tween cosmetics market by storm, selling out his Nicole by OPI line of nail polish, One Less Lonely...
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Japanese traders want rare earths in Siberia
Mitsui & Co. and Sumitomo Corp. are interested in Siberian rare-earth deposits that weren’t expected to be mined until 2030 as Russia tries to fill the gap left when China slashed exports
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Podcast: The TMX-LSE merger explained, and where commodity prices go next
Jan. 28, 2011 — This week on the podcast: We break down what the merger of the TMX Group and the London Stock Exchange Group means for investors, and more importantly, for the future of stock trading....
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Manulife upside limited
Manulife Financial Corp. has reduced its risk profile and upside to its shares in the process.
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Mubarak’s departure revives some risk appetite
Oil and gold prices fell while world stocks rose on Friday after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, following more than two weeks of popular unrest that roiled financial markets
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Soft commodities decline
Soft commodity futures slipped Friday on broad-based profit-taking as the market seemingly paused to catch its breath after surging strongly this week, analysts said. Arabica coffee pulled back from...
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Copper ends higher
Copper bounced from a near two-week low to end a shade higher Friday, as broader market sentiment gradually improved after news of the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Mubarak handed...
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eBay, Coach and the overzealous counterfeit crackdown
The Wall Street Journal reports on something that is quite close to the heart of many of my female friends; Coach handbags. Gina Kim was quite fond of Coach handbags. While travelling in San Francisco,...
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