For people who had doubts concerning the markets’ capability to digest large equity offerings, they can take a look at the $2 billion common share offering by Enbridge Inc. The deal, the second by the company in the past 1 . 5 years, was announced after markets closed on Wednesday. The task for the underwriters was to place 49.14 million ...
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Bill Morneau to push long-term growth, middle-class tax cuts to G20 peers
OTTAWA – Finance Minister Bill Morneau will use this week’s meeting of commercial nations to promote Canada’s economic blueprint as a possible path for improving growth and financial stability in other states. Morneau will join his G20 counterparts on the global stage throughout a two-day summit beginning Friday in Shanghai – a conference which comes in a critical here we ...
Read More »Canadian regulators extend time for unsolicited takeover bids
TORONTO – Unsolicited takeover bids for Canadian companies must seek at least 50 per cent of the target company’s stock and remain open for at least 105 days, according to new rules that will take effect in May. Canadian Securities Administrators, the umbrella group that coordinates policy among Canada’s 13 provincial and territorial securities regulators, published the brand new rules ...
Read More »Explanations, some of which are fanciful, behind Enbridge’s share price gains
Trying to determine the reason why behind the dramatic stock price moves of Enbridge Inc. in the last couple of weeks is an exercise that will tax the sharpest of minds. And when some of those sharps minds are prepared to engage in conspiracy theories the problem becomes even more intriguing. What all participants are attempting to understand are the ...
Read More »Setting the stage for Dundee Corp.’s Blue Goose to go public
It’s merely a small step but there’s finally what’s promising out of Dundee Corp., the holding company that has interests inside a slew of industries including investment advisory, corporate finance, energy, resources, property and infrastructure. The great news: a good investment Dundee made in a recently formed unit more than four years back seems set to visit public using a ...
Read More »Canada still lagging behind U.S. growth, and at this point, we’re nowhere close to catching up
OTTAWA – Divergence in United states economies shows little manifestation of narrowing. While the U.S. economy performed much better than expected in the final quarter of 2015, Canada’s output likely slowed due to the ongoing drag from low oil prices and weak business investment. On Friday, revised U.S. data showed that country still performed much better than expected in the ...
Read More »Goldcorp Inc cuts dividend, lowers production guidance for next three years
Goldcorp Inc. slashed its dividend and lowered its production guidance for the following 3 years on Thursday as the company tries to maintain a strong balance sheet and faces unexpected problems in an Ontario project. The stock dropped 13 per cent on Friday in reaction towards the news, closing at $18.73 in Toronto. It had been the worst performer among ...
Read More »Canadian farmers return to growing vegetables, fruits as low loonie lifts prices
WINNIPEG/CALGARY – Canadian farmers are cashing in around the highest vegetable prices in years, helped through the country’s weak currency and soaring costs of U.S. imports which have renedered them unexpected winners inside a bearish commodity world. Pricey vegetables sending more consumers to freezer aisle: Metro CEO In the era of $10 cauliflower, food price inflation has been driving Canadians ...
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