Description: McDonald’s took nearly 20 years to step back into mergers and acquisitions. But now it has returned to dealmaking, as it looks to build on its tech-heavy strategy with calculated digital investments.
Source: CNBC.com
Date: Apr 03, 2019
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Description: An analysis of mutual fund stock trades over the past two decades has thrown into question the rationale that has sent everybody and her grandmother stampeding into low-cost index funds and exchange traded funds.
Source: MarketWatch.com
Date: Apr 03, 2019
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Description: Despite China’s economic slowdown—due in part to weaknesses in consumption and a trade war with the US—total media ad spending will increase 14.6% in 2019.
Source: eMarketer.com
Date: Mar 28, 2019
Link: https://www.emarketer.com/content/china-digital-ad-spending-2019?ecid=NL1001
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Description: A First Nations consortium is planning to offer about $6.8 billion to buy a 51 per cent stake in the Trans Mountain pipeline, which the federal government purchased last year from Kinder Morgan Canada.
Source: BNNBloomberg.com – video report
Date: Mar 28, 2019
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Description: The Federal Reserve’s policy reversal on interest rates has driven benchmark yields to the lowest levels in more than a year. For stock investors, the falling rates environment is now favoring one particular sector: consumer staples.
Source: CNBC.com – video report
Date: Mar 27, 2019
Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/27/these-stocks-are-seen-as-a-good-bet-when-interest-rates-fall.html
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Description: Thanks to Apple, the iPhone is hardly used as a phone at all. The same thing may very well happen to our wallets — forcing established credit card companies to change the way they do business.
Source: CNBC.com – video report
Date: Mar 26, 2019
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Description: Lululemon Athletica Inc. (LULU.O 14.13%) shares soared to a record high on Thursday after the maker of upscale yogawear topped fourth-quarter estimates and its forecast eased concerns of decelerating sales.
Source: BNNBloomberg.ca – video report
Date: Mar 28, 2019
Link: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/lululemon-surges-to-record-high-after-near-flawless-execution-1.1236152
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Description: 3 of past 7 recessions have seen stocks peak before recession takes hold
Source: MarketWatch.com
Date: Mar 29, 2019
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Description: One day last September an unidentified trader pumped more than $3 billion into a tech fund run by State Street Corp.
Source: Bloomberg.com
Date: Mar 29, 2019
Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-etf-tax-dodge-lets-investors-save-big/?srnd=businessweek-v2
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Description: Here’s a look at the new measures you may have missed in budget 2019.
Source: BNNBloomberg.com – video report
Date: Mar 20, 2019
Link: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/12-things-you-might-have-missed-in-budget-2019-1.1231425
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