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Ottawa says national securities regulator coming soon
– macleans.ca
OTTAWA – Ottawa says it now has four provinces ready to sign on to create a national securities regulator, with the new office overseeing financial markets expected to be operational by the fall of 2015.
Representatives of Saskatchewan and New Brunswick were present for the announcement today, saying they are joining Ontario and British Columbia in an agreement for the formation of a national body to jointly police securities and capital markets.
The gang of four represent about 55 per cent of the value of capital markets, officials say.
This still leaves six provinces out of the scheme — with Alberta and Quebec the key hold-outs — but officials say they will continue trying to bring others into the national body.
The government says it plans to issue a initial draft regulations for public comment on the co-operative legislation involving the four provinces by Dec. 19 of this year.
The plan is to have the four provinces enact legislation affirming the deal by the end of next June and for the joint Capital Markets Regulator to be operational by the fall of 2015…
Representatives of Saskatchewan and New Brunswick were present for the announcement today, saying they are joining Ontario and British Columbia in an agreement for the formation of a national body to jointly police securities and capital markets.
The gang of four represent about 55 per cent of the value of capital markets, officials say.
This still leaves six provinces out of the scheme — with Alberta and Quebec the key hold-outs — but officials say they will continue trying to bring others into the national body.
The government says it plans to issue a initial draft regulations for public comment on the co-operative legislation involving the four provinces by Dec. 19 of this year.
The plan is to have the four provinces enact legislation affirming the deal by the end of next June and for the joint Capital Markets Regulator to be operational by the fall of 2015…
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– theglobeandmail.com
Developer David Azrieli was also known as a generous philanthropist
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Closing 3 Trades ($PCLN, $NILE, $AAPL, $ORCL, $NFLX, $P)
– IntelligentSpeculator.net
This morning I will be closing out 3 more trades from my long & short tech stock picks and it’s always more enjoyable to do so when the 3 are winning trades as is the case this morning. In all 3 cases, I have a decent level of confidence but prefer to open new trades as the earnings season gets started and there will be more opportunities to go after. Returns indicated here are as of yesterday’s close but trades will be closed on today’s opening:Feb 24: Long Priceline (PCLN) & Short Blue Nile (NILE) +20,52%
PCLN data by YCharts
May 19: Long Apple (AAPL) & Short Oracle (ORCL) +20,79%
AAPL data by YCharts
May 19: Long Netflix (NFLX) & Short Pandora (P) +25,13%
NFLX data by YCharts
As is always the case, you can see all the 2014 long & short tech stock trades here:
http://www.intelligentspeculator.net/livetrades
The portfolio return is now over 23% and I’ll have a few more trades to go so hopefully things keep up:)
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