Cdn or US Super Bowl ads?
Will Canadian fans of big-budget, American Super Bowl ads get to see them while the NFL championship game is played next February, or will that be ruled out of bounds after just two seasons? Canada’s new trade agreement with the United States and Mexico, known as USMCA, obliges Ottawa to get rid of a two-year-old […]
Overconfident on security
Canadian companies tend to be overconfident or unprepared to protect sensitive information from data breaches — mostly because they have an incomplete or inadequate picture about the evolving challenges they face. A study conducted by Ovum for FICO — a California-based data analytics company that operates a global fraud detection system for banks, credit card […]
PM pledges dairy help
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says dairy farmers will be compensated for their expected losses under the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. Trudeau met privately with dairy representatives in downtown Montreal amid concerns in the industry that they’re bearing the brunt under the recently concluded free-trade pact. Canadian dairy farmers stand to lose 3.59 per cent of […]
Guardant Health soars almost 70% in first day of trading
Guardant Health shares popped almost 70 percent in their first day of trading on Thursday. The Silicon Valley oncology company, backed by SoftBank, sold 12.5 million shares at $19 in its initial public offering. The stock was up more than 80 percent in mid-afternoon trading but later pared some of those gains, closing up 69.47 […]
JP Morgan downgrades China stocks, predicts ‘full-blown trade war’ with US
J.P. Morgan is getting less optimistic about the trade conflict between the U.S. and China. The firm lowered its rating for Chinese equities to neutral from overweight, predicting the escalating trade war between the countries will affect China’s economy next year. “A full-blown trade war becomes our new base case scenario for 2019,” emerging market […]
Facebook stock is worth the risk, Mark Mahaney says
Facebook will come back stronger than ever from its data privacy scandals, so invest now, RBC Capital Markets’ lead internet analyst told CNBC on Thursday. “I think there’s a couple of pieces that are going to come together in terms of new monetization, new products and greater platform security — and that package, when it comes […]
Dow stock Intel could be on the verge of a big breakout, says trader
Trader sees Intel breaking through to new highs 3:30 PM ET Wed, 3 Oct 2018 | 04:56 Intel has been lagging the semis as a whole this year, but TradingAnalysis.com founder Todd Gordon says the charts are pointing to a breakout for the chipmaker. “There’s been some deeply oversold technical support coupled with a fundamental story that’s […]
Natural gas prices are on fire this month — here’s why
The United States is in the middle of a traditionally weak period for natural gas demand, and production is booming, yet prices for the fossil fuel are rocketing to the highest level since January. What gives? The country is heading into the winter with natural gas stockpiles at their lowest in at least a decade, […]
Wind Farms May Actually Warm the US, Controversial Study Finds
Climate change? Bad. Wind farms to fight climate change? Maybe…also bad? That’s the weirdly veiled and instantly controversial conclusion of two new papers out on Thursday in Joule and Environmental Research Letters. The twin papers look at how wind power could create localized warming and how much energy wind farms produce. The results show that wind farms generate comparatively low […]
Amazon launched a new ‘accelerator’ program to create more exclusive brands
As Amazon revs up its private label business with new household goods and clothing brands, the company is quietly rolling out another way to get more exclusive products onto the site. Amazon is inviting outside companies to “join the Amazon family of brands,” according to a web page for “Our Brands.” At the bottom of the page is a […]