TORONTO – Canada’s biggest pension funds say they are walking away from increasingly more global infrastructure deals, citing concerns that intense competition for assets has driven valuations too much. Canadian pensions facing down fierce competition to pursue global growth strategy Hong Kong-based executives in the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board first introduced themselves to officials at Postal Savings Bank of ...
Read More »Chesapeake Energy Corp rebounds after bankruptcy fears wipe off half its value
Chesapeake Energy Corp. said it doesn’t have plans to seek bankruptcy protection, dismissing a report that destroyed half the U.S. gas driller’s value. Kirkland & Ellis LLP has served as one of Chesapeake’s counsel since 2010 and continues to advise the company because it seeks to further strengthen its balance sheet following its recent debt exchange, Chesapeake said in a ...
Read More »Interest rate shouldn’t be seen as main tool to shore up financial stability: Bank of Canada
OTTAWA – Rates of interest shouldn’t be the only real tool to promote financial stability, said the financial institution of Canada’s Timothy Lane, amid worries of highly indebted consumers and frothy housing markets in Toronto and Vancouver. Lane, deputy governor from the Bank of Canada, designed a speech in Montreal Monday concentrating on monetary policy’s effects on financial stability. The ...
Read More »Suncor Energy wins 73% Canadian Oil Sands shares, declaring takeover a done deal
CALGARY – Suncor Energy has announced that just about 73 per cent of Canadian Oil Sands shares and accompanying rights have been tendered to Suncor’s offer. Suncor officials asserted consequently, the organization will be able to make sure that a subsequent acquisition transaction will be completed and Suncor (TSX:SU) will acquire the remainder of the outstanding COS shares. In mid-January, ...
Read More »China’s ‘new normal’ is still astonishing
Widespread international concerns rose when Beijing announced a week ago that it is economy grew by 6.9 per cent in 2015, just neglecting to meet the official target of seven per cent for that year. The gloomy news out of China continues using its weakening stock exchange, its falling trade figures, its depreciating currency and its softening interest in a ...
Read More »Microsoft’s Project Natick goes under the sea for a solution to keep data centres cool
REDMOND, Wash. – Going for a page from Jules Verne, researchers at Microsoft believe the future of data centres might be underneath the sea. Microsoft has tested a prototype of the self-contained data centre that can operate hundreds of feet underneath the top of the ocean, eliminating among the technology industry’s priciest problems: the air conditioning bill. Today’s data centres, ...
Read More »Georgia lawyer gives appeal court an ‘earful’ with novel Mickey Mouse argument
Robert Ingram of Moore Ingram Johnson & Steeles sought a brand new avenue of persuasion during a recent hearing before the Georgia Court of Appeals. Wearing Donald duck ears, he told the panel that not even Disney World couldn’t endure the “fantasy arguments” produced by opposing counsel. According to Law.com, Ingram told the court that he had spent the prior week at ...
Read More »Bombardier Inc plans reverse stock split as shares dive to lowest level in 25 years: sources
MONTREAL — Plane and train maker Bombardier Inc, whose stock has hit its minimum in Twenty five years, will quickly announce plans for a reverse stock split, two sources acquainted with the problem said, in order to remain a part of Canada’s benchmark stock index. The sources, who aren’t authorized to publicly discuss the plans, said Bombardier’s board of directors ...
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