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– ratesupermarket.ca
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The amount of chatter that the Bank of Montreal’s mortgage rate cut generated this week is more proof that Canadians are not yet sick of talking about real estate. But it’s unclear how much of an effect the new 2.99 per cent five-year rate will have in terms of driving new buyers to the market.
Weekend Readings
– IntelligentSpeculator.net
It’s been fascinating to see the Ukraine crisis develop and I have been closely tracking the RSX etf that tracks the Russian market. It just feels like the downside is fairly small at this point… or is just me?Here are a few readings that might be of interest;)
General Readings
-Can the Bloomberg terminal be toppled? @ MattTurck
-The impossible quest for fair markets @ Muslings
Tech Stock Readings
-So you want to compete with Amazon @ A16Z
-The price of music ($P) @ Recode
-Bear hugging Android @ Bubba
-What’s next for messenging after WhatsApp @ techCrunch
-Twitter’s big problem @ WSJ
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Live blog: Quebec leader’s debate
– macleans.ca
Parti Quebecois leader Pauline Marois speaks to the media following the debate in Montreal on March 20, 2014.Quebec political leaders face off in their final debate Thursday before voters head to the polls on April 7. Maclean’s political editor Paul Wells will follow the action and will offer his thoughts here as the debate occurs. The debate runs from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. EST.
8 p.m.
It’s kind of nutty how much the tension has gone up since the first debate only a week ago. Mostly because the polls suggest Philippe Couillard’s Liberals have overtaken Pauline Marois’s incumbent PQ. This unleashed the dogs of negative campaigning, and the past few days have seen all sorts of allegations of financial skullduggery going in every direction. It’s become a nasty campaign suddenly.
And yet in the first few minutes, this second-round debate is weirdly calm. It begins with Couillard facing François Legault, the leader of the upstart (and sputtering) Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ)…
Markets in lull as investors watch for moves by China, shrug off upbeat US data
– canadianbusiness.com
TOKYO – Stock market trading was muted Friday in Asia as investors watched for moves by China to counter its economic slowdown.
Window dressing ahead of the fiscal year’s end helped Japanese shares rebound from early losses after the government reported household spending fell in February, suggesting consumer demand is not rising as much as expected ahead of an April 1 sales tax hike.
Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock index gained 0.4 per cent to close at 14,676.26. South Korea’s Kospi was almost unchanged at 1,978.82.
Expectations have been rising for more stimulus in China as growth has slowed to its weakest since the financial crisis.
With the focus on Asia, regional markets appeared to get little if any boost from figures suggesting a sustained recovery for the U.S. economy, which grew at a 2.6 per cent annualized rate in the October-December quarter, slightly more than previously estimated.
“Market sentiment is not too good,” said Linus Yip, a strategist at Shanghai Securities in Hong Kong, where small-cap Internet, environment and pharmaceutical shares could be headed for a correction, he said, given their relatively high valuations…
Window dressing ahead of the fiscal year’s end helped Japanese shares rebound from early losses after the government reported household spending fell in February, suggesting consumer demand is not rising as much as expected ahead of an April 1 sales tax hike.
Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock index gained 0.4 per cent to close at 14,676.26. South Korea’s Kospi was almost unchanged at 1,978.82.
Expectations have been rising for more stimulus in China as growth has slowed to its weakest since the financial crisis.
With the focus on Asia, regional markets appeared to get little if any boost from figures suggesting a sustained recovery for the U.S. economy, which grew at a 2.6 per cent annualized rate in the October-December quarter, slightly more than previously estimated.
“Market sentiment is not too good,” said Linus Yip, a strategist at Shanghai Securities in Hong Kong, where small-cap Internet, environment and pharmaceutical shares could be headed for a correction, he said, given their relatively high valuations…
