Vancouver-based PI Financial Corp. has become among the consolidators from the domestic brokerage business having a three-way deal announced Monday. PI has applied for a definitive agreement to acquire the retail clients of two Western Canadian firms, Wolverton Securities and Global Securities Corp. The two deals, announced at the same time, are scheduled to close at different times, in part ...
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Peter Tertzakian: Hard to break gasoline habit
I pulled in to the filling station somewhat reluctantly. It was packed with a parade of cars, SUVs and pickups, each jockeying for their use nourish their internal combustion engines having a tank of gasoline. I do not like waiting. However i did, after the ordeal I went into the station to purchase coffee. “What’s going on out there,” Gurus ...
Read More »Shorts still circling Enbridge, despite recent gains
For the time being, a minimum of, the problem will stay something of a mystery. We are referring to the still high short-interest position in Enbridge, a few weeks after it closed a $2.3-billion equity offering after a period of substantial stock price gains. According to information released Friday by the TMX, rapid position in Enbridge as of March 15 ...
Read More »Oilpatch M&As off to hottest start in years, fuelled by low prices
Suncor Energy Inc.’s closure of their $6.6 billion Canadian Oil Sands Ltd. purchase Monday and TransCanada Corp.’s US$13.3 billion proposed acquisition of Columbia Pipeline Group indicate a recovery in M&A deals, using the segment enjoying its best year-to-date performance since 2009, according to data. “You possess a little more upward momentum in oil prices and the fire is burning a ...
Read More »Kraft changed its mac and cheese ingredients and nobody noticed: ‘We’ve sold well over 50 million boxes’
Usually when companies come forth with a brand new and improved formula, they want the general public to know. However when the item under consideration is an iconic food product, the calculus gets tougher. Every marketer remembers having a shudder the cautionary tale of New Coke. The Condiment Wars: The way a misstep by Heinz laid the path for French’s ...
Read More »Bill Morneau sets Canada on path for near-record deficits, growing to more than $29B over next fiscal year
OTTAWA – The Trudeau government has confirmed what a lot of private-sector analysts have predicted for months: Canada is headed for a string of near-record deficits as it plows many billions of dollars into new programs – many of them promised, a few not – along with multi-year infrastructure projects that have yet to be decided. After eking out a ...
Read More »Rubicon Minerals Corp warns ‘significant doubt’ it can survive after breaching loan covenant
TORONTO – Rubicon Minerals Corp. is at risk of collapse after breaching a debt covenant and halting its high-profile Ontario gold project because of technical problems. The junior miner announced Tuesday that there’s “significant doubt” it may continue like a going concern because of its debt, and could need to seek creditor protection. To stay onside using the terms of ...
Read More »‘Don’t take your frustration out on Heinz:’ Leamington Mayor warns ketchup boycott could backfire
WINDSOR – Be cautious what you boycott. The Condiment War: How ketchup was a rallying cry for Canadian nationalism Little did Heinz realize that two years after closing its Leamington, Ont. plant lingering anger would play right into both your hands of 1 of its biggest competitors. Read on The French’s-Heinz ketchup controversy, with Southwestern Ontario Ground Zero within the ...
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