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Edge Towers Boasts Central Location
Edge Towers, a new three-tower condo project in Mississauga by Solmar Development Corp., boasts a location that is as central as they come. The community will be situated along Hurontario Street, Miss ...
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Hot Montreal Housing Market Sparks Bidding Wars
09:24, 18/08/2018
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The Next Real Estate Bubble Is Popping
14:34, 02/08/2018
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Edge Towers Boasts Central Location
06:17, 06/07/2018
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B.C. Law Targets Condo Flipping, Tax Evasion, Rental Homes
16:24, 30/06/2018
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Coming Condo Launches Feature Great Locations, Access to Transit
14:28, 29/06/2018
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$5 Million ‘Alien Ranch’ in Arizona May Have Buyers
15:53, 26/06/2018
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Elad Canada Brings Innovative Vision to Large Master-Planned Communities
16:15, 25/06/2018
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Tougher Mortgage Rules Deflating Toronto Housing Market
08:39, 16/06/2018
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B.C. Law Targets Condo Flipping, Tax Evasion, Rental Homes
16:24, 30/06/2018
VICTORIA—British Columbia’s government wants to crack down on tax evasion in the condominium market and has given municipalities more control over rental housing as it looks for ways of easing a housi ...
Coming Condo Launches Feature Great Locations, Access to Transit
14:28, 29/06/2018
Condos will continue to be the dominant force in the Toronto real estate market in 2018 for affordability and lifestyle reasons. While this year’s sales may not top the recording-setting year 2017 was ...
$5 Million ‘Alien Ranch’ in Arizona May Have Buyers
15:53, 26/06/2018
A ranch in Rainbow Valley, Arizona, that is on the market for $5 million has generated a buzz, and not because it has a 10-foot swimming pool, five-bedrooms and four-bathrooms on almost 10 acres of la ...
Elad Canada Brings Innovative Vision to Large Master-Planned Communities
16:15, 25/06/2018
Over the last decade, Elad Canada has established a reputation as a forward-thinking, reputable developer with transformative projects such as Emerald City in North York. Over the last 10 years, Elad ...
Tougher Mortgage Rules Deflating Toronto Housing Market
08:39, 16/06/2018
Toronto’s housing market keeps cooling off with sales falling sharply, but prices remain stable in aggregate, according to the Toronto Real Estate Board’s monthly news release. Home sales in the Great ...
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Burberry to Stop Burning Unsold Goods, Removes Real Fur From Collections
07:08, 06/09/2018
LONDON—Britain’s Burberry will no longer burn millions of pounds worth of unsold luxury goods or use real fur in its collections following a furor over it environmental record. It admitted in Ju ...
Coca-Cola Quickly Brews up Costa ‘Del Sol’ Deal With Whitbread
07:47, 05/09/2018
LONDON—The 3.9 billion-pound ($5.1 billion) sale of the Costa coffee chain to Coca-Cola began brewing when Whitbread’s boss Alison Brittain crossed paths with the chief executive of the soft dri ...
Buffett Boosts Apple Stake ‘A Little,’ Says iPhone Is ‘Enormously Underpriced’
18:16, 31/08/2018
The Oracle of Omaha is adding to his already large stake in Apple Inc. Warren Buffett, 88, likes the technology giant because of its devoted customers, and has built up his stake in the company by “ju ...
‘Amazon Effect’ Could Have Impact on Inflation Dynamics: Paper
17:09, 28/08/2018
More frequent price changes for goods and a rise in the consistency of pricing due to the growth of online retailers may be affecting inflation, according to an academic paper presented on August 25 t ...
Alibaba Revenue Beats, but Investments Prolong Margin Squeeze
09:32, 27/08/2018
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, China’s biggest e-commerce firm topped first-quarter revenue estimates on Aug. 23 but said investments in its food delivery business would continue to weigh on profits ...
Gap Shares Tumble as Flagship Brand Shows No Sign of Recovery
19:13, 24/08/2018
Shares of Gap Inc fell 8 pct in premarket trading on Friday, a day after the company’s namesake brand posted another bigger-than-expected drop in comparable sales, raising concerns around the un ...
Missouri Judge Affirms $4.69 Billion Talc Verdict, J&J Vows to Appeal
14:35, 23/08/2018
A Missouri trial court judge has affirmed the massive $4.69 billion verdict against Johnson & Johnson in a case involving 22 women and their families who alleged the company’s talc-based pro ...
US Government Seeks Facebook Help to Wiretap Messenger
08:43, 20/08/2018
SAN FRANCISCO—The U.S. government is trying to force Facebook Inc. to break the encryption in its popular Messenger app so law enforcement may listen to a suspect’s voice conversations in a crim ...
Walmart’s Second Quarter Sales Rise Most in Decade, Shares Soar
20:01, 17/08/2018
NEW YORK—Walmart Inc reported quarterly earnings and sales that topped estimates on Thursday, driven by strong grocery sales and a revamped website that boosted online purchases, and the company’ ...
‘Free’ Supermarket Opens to Cut Food Waste
07:16, 16/08/2018
Tucked away in an inner city suburb of Melbourne is a grocery store with a difference—there are no prices. “The idea was to make a difference in the food waste crisis,” says Inconvenience ...
Twitter Executives Say Policies Need to Constantly Evolve to Counter ‘Hate Speech’
09:09, 12/08/2018
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Vice President Del Harvey said they plan to further “evolve” the social-media platform’s policies to counter “hate speech,” after discussions with company employees r ...
India’s Ola to Launch in Britain as Uber Rivalry Heats Up
06:32, 10/08/2018
NEW DELHI—Indian ride-hailing firm Ola said on Tuesday it plans to launch services in Britain this year, months after expanding operations in Australia, intensifying its rivalry with U.S. peer Uber Te ...
Fuel-Economy Proposal Will Cut Traffic Deaths, Lower Car Prices, EPA Says
10:01, 06/08/2018
The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a set of new fuel economy and emissions standards on Aug. 2, estimated to result in 12,700 fewer traffic deaths, make passenger cars more affordable, and g ...
Deutsche Bank Reports Show Chinks in Money Laundering Armor
08:16, 04/08/2018
FRANKFURT—Deutsche Bank has uncovered shortcomings in its ability to fully identify clients and the source of their wealth, internal documents seen by Reuters show, more than a year after it was fined ...
Facebook Braces for Biggest Wipeout in Stock Market History
07:52, 30/07/2018
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune is set to take a $16 billion hit on Thursday, as the social media giant braces for the biggest one-day wipeout in U.S. stock market history, a day after it ...
Twitter Tightens Process for App Developers to Clean up Site
09:19, 29/07/2018
Twitter Inc. is introducing a stricter application process for developers that want access to the social platform’s data and removing more apps that violate its code of conduct, part of the continuing ...
Retail Strength Adds Fuel to Canada’s Economy
18:44, 27/07/2018
NEWS ANALYSIS A robust economy and stock market are invigorating consumers’ wallets. Supported by an even stronger economy south of the border, retail in Canada has maintained its uptrend while digest ...
Facebook Sets Lobbying Record Amid Cambridge Analytica Fallout
07:19, 24/07/2018
Facebook Inc. set a company record for lobbying spending in the second quarter, the period during which Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress and the social media giant fac ...
Congress Grills Social Media Companies
18:37, 20/07/2018
WASHINGTON— The U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on July 17 to take testimony from Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter on whether social media giants are filtering content for political reason ...
Argentina Unveils ‘Emergency’ Austerity Measures, Grain Export Taxes to Balance Budget
15:40, 03/09/2018
BUENOS AIRES—President Mauricio Macri on Sept. 3 announced new taxes on exports in the world’s third-biggest soy producer and steep cuts to government spending in an “emergency” bid ...
Struggling China Desperately Seeks Canada Trade Lifeline
15:35, 30/08/2018
The U.S.-led trade war with China is jeopardizing the Chinese economy’s illegitimate house of cards. In a desperate move, Beijing is now trying to revive free trade talks with Canada even after one of ...
Lebanese Chafe as Economic Blues Begin to Bite
08:17, 25/08/2018
25BEIRUT—For Mazen Rahhal, a shop owner in a bustling district of Beirut, Lebanon’s economy has seldom felt more precarious. In one store, he sells clothes at a fraction of their previous price. ...
US Dollar Slides, Euro at Two-Week High
20:02, 22/08/2018
NEW YORK—The U.S. dollar continued its slide on Aug. 22, and the euro hit a two-week high as investors rushed to cover short positions. Some analysts said renewed U.S. political uncertainty could keep ...
Turkey Financial Crisis: Stocks at Record Low as Lira Plunges Again
07:20, 14/08/2018
Turkey’s currency crisis sent world markets reeling, as investors in emerging markets sought safety in government bonds and the dollar. It follows the lira’s record plunge of up to 18 percent on Aug. ...
Trade Tensions Boost Dollar as Chinese Stocks Drop
09:06, 13/08/2018
NEW YORK—Concerns about Britain’s plan to leave the European Union sent the pound to an 11-month low against the greenback on Monday, while U.S.-China trade tensions helped boost the U.S. curren ...
Wall Street Eyes More Gains From Apple, Its $1 Trillion Stock
08:25, 07/08/2018
Shares in Apple Inc edged higher on Friday but stayed close to the $1 trillion valuation milestone the iPhone maker reached a day earlier, even as Wall Street predicted more gains. After becoming the ...
The Manufacturing Heartland Is the Key to Future Elections
09:07, 03/08/2018
People want the easy life, the simple life, with predetermined expectations, predictability, and mundane repetitiveness. This is what existed for the workforce back in the 1960s and ’70s. But th ...
South Korea Vows to Support Chip Industry With $1.34 Billion Investment
10:41, 01/08/2018
South Korea plans to invest 1.5 trillion won ($1.34 billion) over the next 10 years in its semiconductor industry, according to Yonhap News Agency. Paik Ungyu—the Minister of Trade, Industry, and Ener ...
A Weak Dollar Will Not Make America Great
21:17, 31/07/2018
The U.S. dollar has become the safest asset, in the face of mounting evidence that competitive devaluations and drowning structural problems in liquidity are coming to a close. The U.S. dollar is stre ...
Inflation in the News, but What Is It Exactly?
09:30, 18/07/2018
It’s in all the economic headlines now: After years of academics worrying about falling prices, the inflation threat is back. The Wall Street Journal wrote in its July 12 newsletter: “Inflation ...
NAFTA Talks to Get More Complicated
07:25, 16/07/2018
Mexico’s leftist president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he is willing to work with President Donald Trump and reach a deal on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), despite strongl ...
Business Leaders Face Increasingly Harsh Global Environment
19:28, 14/07/2018
The CEO of any company in the world is under severe pressure. The primary forces the CEO is facing are built directly on the forward-moving nature of business and the sheer number of walls he has to s ...
Tax Cuts Work
14:51, 08/07/2018
It happened again. Tax receipts soared in the United States after the recent tax cuts. Although it will take a while for the full effect of the 2017 tax reform to kick in, U.S. state and local governm ...
Banks Rolling Over May Be a Bad Omen for This Market: Taking Stock
03:46, 02/07/2018
Stock futures are looking a bit delicate currently, with the e-minis down more than 10 handles and at one point coming close to testing June 25 lows. Weakness in the global markets begets weakness in ...
Fed Tightening Is Hitting Financials
09:30, 01/07/2018
Even as the Federal Open Market Committee raised short-term interest rates last week, the Trump Administration doubled down on trade rhetoric to gain leverage in the mid-term elections. The markets ha ...
States Seek to Expand Local Tax Deductions Narrowed by Congress
17:17, 22/06/2018
Under the new tax code, taxpayers who itemize their deductions will be subject to a cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions. States with higher individual income and property tax rates have objec ...
Canadian Steel Not a National Security Threat on Its Own: Ross
16:55, 22/06/2018
OTTAWA—The U.S. commerce secretary says Canada is not a national security threat and that a revitalized NAFTA could make the Trump administration’s tariffs on steel and aluminum go away. Wilbur Ross a ...
Corporate Tax Cuts Benefit All Americans, Says JP Morgan Economist
07:33, 18/06/2018
Tax reform is boosting company savings, which in return benefits “workers, productivity, and the economy overall,” according to JPMorgan Chase. Since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was signed into law in D ...
Swiss Voters Reject Campaign to Radically Alter Banking System
08:09, 12/06/2018
ZURICH—A radical plan to transform Switzerland’s financial landscape by barring commercial banks from electronically creating money when they lend was resoundingly rejected by Swiss voters on Su ...
Oil Prices Higher as US Sanctions Limit Iran Exports
15:15, 04/09/2018
LONDON—Oil prices rose on Sept. 3, supported by concerns that falling Iranian output will tighten markets once U.S. sanctions bite from November, but gains were limited by higher supply from OPEC and ...
Global Wheat Supply to Crisis Levels; Big China Stocks Won’t Provide Relief
07:52, 01/09/2018
LONDON—A scorching hot, dry summer has ended five years of plenty in many wheat producing countries and drawn down the reserves of major exporters to their lowest level since 2007/08, when low grain s ...
How Much Longer Can Buybacks Push Stocks Higher?
09:26, 29/08/2018
Companies buying back their own shares is now one of the biggest sources of demand for stocks, helping propel the S&P 500 to new record highs. Goldman Sachs expects the amount of stock bought back ...
Brazil Mall Executives Shrug Off Looming Amazon.com Expansion
07:00, 21/08/2018
SAO PAULO—Fears of e-commerce taking off in Brazil have sunk shares of the country’s big mall operators this year, but industry executives expressed confidence that local shopping habits, the re ...
Turkish Lira Hits Record Low After US Says Reviewing Duty-Free Access
09:13, 15/08/2018
ISTANBUL—The Turkish lira plunged to a record low on Monday after the Trump administration said it was reviewing Turkey’s duty-free access to the U.S. market, a move that could affect $1.7 billi ...
James Altucher: ‘Bitcoin solves all the problems’
13:08, 09/08/2018
In his newsletter and blog “Altucher Confidential,” maverick investor and author James Altucher usually focuses on out of the box investments like obscure pharma stocks, or buying a laundr ...
Investors Move to Cash, Anticipating Democratic Gains in US November Elections
08:47, 08/08/2018
NEW YORK—The likelihood of a Democratic party takeover of at least one house of the U.S. Congress in the midterm elections in November is prompting some portfolio managers to move more money to cash a ...
The Rules of the Bond Game
10:01, 26/07/2018
American hard money advocate, economist, and publisher Franz Pick once called government bonds “Guaranteed Certificates of Confiscation.” In making that statement, he assumed the government would even ...
Canadian Stocks Finally Enjoy Day in the Sun
09:03, 23/07/2018
NEWS ANALYSIS The Canadian stock market has long been a laggard globally, but it reached record highs last week and outperformed the S&P 500 by 3 percent in the second quarter. The Canadian econom ...
Key House Republicans: China Should Stop Cheating
20:39, 19/07/2018
China resorts to predatory trade and investment practices and should be held accountable for its bad behavior, according to two key House Republicans. “China does not share our values. We have long se ...
US to Become World’s Top Oil Producer Within a Year, Says EIA
21:31, 17/07/2018
The United States is on track to surpass both Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world’s largest oil producer, for the first time since the 1970s. U.S. crude oil production will average 10.8 ...
Malaysia Suspends $20 Billion China-Backed Rail Project
15:26, 10/07/2018
Malaysia suspended three of its largest China-backed projects worth $22 billion on Thursday. The projects in question are the $20 billion East Coast Rail Link and two pipeline projects that cost more ...
Top US Automakers Report Higher Vehicle Sales in June
20:02, 07/07/2018
Top U.S. automakers reported stronger June sales, as consumers continued to snap up sport utility vehicles and trucks in larger numbers, parking for now worries about rising fuel prices, higher intere ...
Initial Public Offerings on US Exchanges Soar in 2018
05:16, 04/07/2018
The market for initial public offerings on American stock exchanges recorded the highest volume since 2012 in the first half of this year. A total of 120 companies raised $35.2 billion through initial ...
OPEC Set to Lift Oil Output and Ease Prices
07:50, 24/06/2018
In an effort to tackle a looming oil supply shortage, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will be discussing output levels at its biannual meeting in Vienna on June 22–23. The ...
Cybersecurity’s Newest Stock
16:30, 21/06/2018
The First Trust Nasdaq Cybersecurity ETF (exchange-traded fund) opened under the ticket CIBR. Securities must be classified as Cybersecurity company to be included. An ETF tracks a set of equities and ...
The Future of Cryptocurrency
08:28, 19/06/2018
BRUSSELS—Although there has been the controversy over bubbles and fraud, the new technology called block chain and the cryptocurrency are increasingly being accepted as the stream of time in which peo ...
With Assembly Team and Samosas, IKEA Lays Ground for India Debut
08:59, 13/06/2018
MUMBAI/STOCKHOLM—IKEA is set to open its first store in India next month, and the world’s biggest furniture retailer is localizing its offering – from the food menu to its “do-it-you ...
The Threat to Bitcoin From Quantum Computing
18:24, 11/06/2018
Quantum computing is here, although it’s far away from making it into the mainstream. To make a long story short, it will revolutionize computer hardware and be a lot faster than traditional mac ...