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Bank of Canada survey says Canadian businesses are optimistic Oct 16th
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Horgan gives $600 million in tax rebates to help curb inflationary pressures - Vancouver Sun Sep 7th
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The lessons we can learn from the stock market in 2017
– macleans.ca
Frank Gunn/CPIt’s time for investors to say goodbye to 2017, so here’s one last look at what was hot—and not.
It was the year of dope stocks. And Bitcoin stocks, which, frankly, we MoneySense editors find pretty dopey as well (we aren’t touching either of them). Longfin Corp. is a great example of how nutty the whole Bitcoin mess got by the end of the year. Its shares were up 2,300 per cent in a single week in December on the Nasdaq, with a big part of the surge coming shortly after the IPO when the founder “sold” himself another related company that has crypto-market aspirations. Longfin’s prospects are tied to somehow, someday leveraging the Blockchain technology of distributed ledgers (that is the backbone of cryptocurrencies) to make loans. In a year when Bitcoin rose from less than US$1,000 to almost US$20,000, it seemed like anything close to it could get caught up in the mania. Expect to see a lot more silliness in 2018, even though Blockchain technology is here to stay…
Big pension funds’ long-term push for sustainability shifts investment climate
– theglobeandmail.com
While the sustainability of investments has long been top of mind for the country’s largest pension funds, there was a surge in the promotion of responsible investment issues in 2017
While stabilizing oil prices helped Canadian equities break out of their doldrums in the second half of 2017, investors expecting the Toronto Stock Exchange to catch up with its outperforming global peers in the new year should instead anticipate more modest returns with the add-on of greater market volatility.
