Customers can chose to add savings component to debit card purchases
The S&P/Case-Shiller home-price indexes, a closely watched gauge of U.S. home prices, saw prices fall further in February as slumping home sales and an increasing inventory of vacant homes further increased downward pressures on prices.According to the indices, released today by ratings firm Standard & Poor’s, home prices in 10 major U.S. metropolitan areas fell […]
Trading to begin May 30
Common sense dictates that Canada should have a single securities regulator. But as much sense as the idea makes in principle, its advocates only undermine their cause when they reflexively tout it as a solution to every conceivable industry problem.There are many good reasons for a single regulator. But, lately, it seems that almost any […]
Inconsistencies place undue administrative and compliance costs on businesses
The federal government is on track to exceed the $10.2 billion surplus it had forecast in the February budget despite the revenue drain of personal and business tax cuts it put in place last fall.The government’s fiscal monitor shows that Ottawa took in $2.9 billion more than it spent in February, bringing the 11-month tally […]
Offering to close May 1
Sector posted gains in labour productivity, operating profit
Oil prices retreat
U.S. markets finish mixed