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At the open: Quarterly results, bank shares boost TSX
– theglobeandmail.com
S&P, Dow start higher after two sessions of losses
CIBC kicks off bank results with dividend hike, beats expectations
– theglobeandmail.com
First-quarter net earnings slip to $1.32-billion from $1.4-billion a year earlier
The Liberals’ supercluster plan is an economic fantasy
– macleans.ca
Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development announces proposals under the $950-million Innovation Superclusters Initiative in Ottawa, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand)Alex Usher is president of Higher Education Strategy Associates and a fellow-in-residence of the CD Howe Institute.
Last week, at a media event at the National Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa, Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains posed a question on behalf of the entire country. “What,” he asked, “is a supercluster”? Well might he ask.
The term is on everyone’s lips right now because the Liberal government just announced $950 million in supercluster spending. The cluster concept isn’t new: it’s been around in academic circles since the 1980s and business guru Michael Porter gave the notion its first mass-market outing in his 1990 book The Wealth of Nations. (The adoption of the prefix “super” is mostly a Liberal branding exercise.) The term simply encompasses the fairly banal observations that some geographic areas get big and rich by being home to a dense network of firms in a single economic field…
SNC-Lavalin tops profit estimates, forecasts strong 2018 earnings
– theglobeandmail.com
Net income attributable to shareholders rose to $52.4-million, or 30 cents per share, for the quarter ended Dec. 31
CIBC says it is boosting its quarterly payment to common shareholders by three cents to $1.33 per share as the bank reported first-quarter earnings that were better than the market had been forecasting.
