Five positive thoughts for investors as the TSX posts it best January in 39 years: Peter Hodson
Peter Hodson: There is still a ton of investor doom and gloom out there, but these five points should make you feel a bit better
Disappointing wage gains can partly be blamed on oil slump, but there’s more to it than that: BoC’s Wilkins: The Canadian Press
Wages have fallen short of where they should be in a tightened job market where the unemployment rate is at a a 43-year low
Ontario may let realtors tell homebuyers the price of other bids: The Canadian Press
Right now, buyers often blindly offer more than what they had wanted to spend in hopes of beating their competitor
‘Just get it fixed’: Big business plans all-out blitz on Washington to end Trump’s trade war: Bloomberg News
The campaign includes an ad aimed at parents that essentially says the trade war might be endangering babies
Brookfield weighs potential bid for Dutch Royal KPN phone company: Bloomberg News
The company had a market value of about US$12.2 billion on Wednesday, before Brookfield's deliberations were reported
Equitable Bank moving closer to opening new trust company this year: Geoff Zochodne
Lender says the trust would help diversify its business and sources of funding
No-waste Vancouver grocery store not a garbage idea to help tackle food waste: The Canadian Press
VANCOUVER — Customers at a boutique Vancouver grocery store won’t find racks of individually packaged goods or rolls of plastic bags in which to lug their food home. The missing plastic and packaging isn’t an oversight. A carefully constructed supply chain al…
Real estate ‘supply skeptics’ have it all wrong: Building more houses really does improve affordability: Haider-Moranis Bulletin
Haider-Moranis Bulletin: Imagine the increase in housing prices in the absence of any new housing construction
Canada’s economy shrinks for the second time in three months: Bloomberg News
GDP numbers leave Bank of Canada ‘decidedly on hold for the next couple of quarters’, says economist
Canada’s economy shrinks on declines in trade, manufacturing: The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says real gross domestic product decreased by 0.1 per cent in November. The decrease partly offset an increase of 0.3 per cent in October. The report was in line with estimates that the contraction would be 0.1 per cent for the mont…
Trudeau’s housing strategy is vintage Harper — it was a bad idea then, and it’s a bad idea now: Kevin Carmichael
Kevin Carmichael: Promises to make it easier for voters to live out their dreams of owning a home can be risky
The Fed is capitulating and that could be a bad sign for the economy: Joe Chidley
The bad news is that the Fed’s back-stepping suggests that the economic cycle might be getting long in the tooth, and the recovery isn’t as robust as it previously let on
‘Not out of the woods yet’: Alberta eases oil production limits as crude backlog begins to clear: Geoffrey Morgan
Since the curtailment order, the amount of oil in storage tanks in Alberta has declined by 5 million barrels to a total of 30 million barrels and the differential has shrunk substantially
‘Not out of the woods yet’: Alberta eases oil production limits as crude backlog begins to clear: Geoffrey Morgan
Since the curtailment order, the discount on Canadian oil has shrunk substantially, narrowing to less than $9 a barrel this week
Tesla reports smaller Q4 profit than previous quarter: Reuters
Tesla said Model 3 production volume in California should reach 7,000 units per week by the end of the year
Microsoft’s Azure revenue growth slows: Reuters
Microsoft Corp’s Azure cloud computing platform grew at a slower pace in the December quarter compared with a year earlier, sending shares of the software giant about 2 per cent lower in after-hours trade on Wednesday. Azure, Microsoft’s flagship cloud produc…
Facebook quarterly profit, revenue beat estimates, helped by Instagram’s strength: Reuters
Facebook saw growth in its Instagram business and a steady rise in advertising spending by companies
And the winner is … ? POT stock ticker goes to company, but TMX won’t reveal name or industry: The Canadian Press
POT was so popular the stock exchange had to hold a lottery
Apple revokes Facebook’s app development credentials after latest data tracking revelations: Bloomberg News
Apple's decision demonstrates both its power over the industry and a penchant for privacy
Federal Reserve holds interest rates, pivots to ‘patient’ approach to future moves: Bloomberg News
The Fed signalled flexibility on the path for reducing its balance sheet, a substantial pivot away from its bias just last month toward higher borrowing costs
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