AS the global financial system was engulfed in crisis in 2008-10, only one set of banks in Europe and North America stayed serene and safe: Canada’s big five lenders. They were largely untouched by the madness south of the border and across the pond and kept churning out profits. After the crisis experts went on […]
Read moreAttendees inspect the new iPad Pro during the 2017 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) at the San Jose Convention Center on June 5, 2017 in San Jose, California. Cramer tells analyst his Sunday night Apple downgrade was ‘showboat’ call 9 Hours Ago | 09:07 Apple shares fell more than 2 percent Monday, falling for a […]
Read moreWhat if President Donald Trump threw a $1 trillion infrastructure party and no one showed up? So far, the Democrats don’t look like they’re coming to this affair. But they need an appearance. And soon! The RSVP is due in the next few weeks. President Trump kicked things off last week by offering the first […]
Read moreBritain was plunged deep into political uncertainty after last week’s inconclusive General Election and while Westminster comes to terms with a hung parliament, CNBC spoke with various analysts to understand the impact on investors over the coming months. “Clearly the pound is a little bit weaker, I think it’s going to bounce around for a […]
Read moreFor the principal part of President Donald Trump’s agenda to get passed, it may take something as dramatic as a sharp stock market pullback, according to one Wall Street analyst. As the political drama heightens in Washington the legislative agenda suffers, leading to fears that tax reform is nowhere near getting done. Trump wants to […]
Read moreThe 165 year-old Bank of the Philippines Islands counts Philippines conglomerate Ayala and Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC among its major shareholders. BPI says that a major system glitch led to customers getting hit by unauthorised money withdrawals and deposits. The problem is that the transactions reached up to thousands of pesos. Some users claimed on social media that […]
Read moreOnce again crazy people kill in the name of religion. Police have claimed that they have shot dead three Terrorists within eight minutes of the attacks which killed seven people with a vehicle and knife attack. It is said that the Terrorists drove a Van into pedestrians on the London Bridge just after 10pm (local […]
Read moreA lot can be achieved in 40 years. You could build a decent sized Egyptian pyramid with manual labour, construct a massive channel connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and still have another decade up your sleeve to develop the Apollo program to get the first man on the moon. There would also be enough […]
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