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60 days – 1.75%
– ratesupermarket.ca
This GIC rate is offered by Oaken Financial and was updated on 2014-12-19. Click on the link above to get more details or apply online.
3.5 year – 2.30%
– ratesupermarket.ca
This GIC rate is offered by DUCA Financial Services and was updated on 2014-11-28. Click on the link above to get more details or apply online.
Q&A: Why China’s stock market plunged 8 per cent and the rest of the world shrugged
– canadianbusiness.com
Chinese stocks plunged Monday after the country’s securities regulator rapped three major brokerages for continuing to lend money for stock purchases in violation of rules. As punishment for extending so called “margin trading” contracts, the brokerages are forbidden to offer credit to new customers for three months.
— HOW MUCH DID SHARES FALL?
At one point Monday, the Shanghai Composite Index was down 8.3 per cent. It later trimmed that to a loss of 7.7 per cent. Share prices of brokerages were hardest hit, with some falling by the daily loss limit of 10 per cent. Despite the sharp fall, the Shanghai Composite Index is still up 55 per cent in the past 12 months and up 33 per cent for the past three months.
— WHY DID THE MARKET FALL SO MUCH?
Investors and analysts see the penalties against the brokerages as foreshadowing more curbs on credit-financed trading by China’s government. Authorities want to stop the stock market’s boom over the past year from turning into a bubble that could damage the broader economy…
— HOW MUCH DID SHARES FALL?
At one point Monday, the Shanghai Composite Index was down 8.3 per cent. It later trimmed that to a loss of 7.7 per cent. Share prices of brokerages were hardest hit, with some falling by the daily loss limit of 10 per cent. Despite the sharp fall, the Shanghai Composite Index is still up 55 per cent in the past 12 months and up 33 per cent for the past three months.
— WHY DID THE MARKET FALL SO MUCH?
Investors and analysts see the penalties against the brokerages as foreshadowing more curbs on credit-financed trading by China’s government. Authorities want to stop the stock market’s boom over the past year from turning into a bubble that could damage the broader economy…
The world’s new angel investors are women
– macleans.ca
Photograph by Blair GableBack in 2001, at an angel-investing conference in Toronto—a gathering of wealthy individuals who provide early-stage funding to start-up businesses, hence the divine moniker—Coralie Lalonde was an unusual sight. As the precocious mid-thirties founder and CEO of angel-investment group Katsura Investments, she was among peers. But as the event went on, she looked around the room and began to count. “I went, ‘Wait a second, am I the only girl here?’ ” she says.
Indeed, amid the sea of suits, Lalonde spotted fewer than 10 women, and after learning they were representatives from investment firms or government, she realized she was the only female angel among the 134 attendees at the event. Not that she ever felt out of place there, or at any subsequent angel-investor events where the entrepreneur and former contractor for Nortel would hear pitches from companies looking for backers. “It’s not intimidating because I don’t need to be there,” she says…
40 days – 2.75%
– ratesupermarket.ca
This GIC rate is offered by DUCA Financial Services and was updated on 0000-00-00. Click on the link above to get more details or apply online.
