The Canadian banking industry is highly concentrated with six major banks dominating the market. After surviving the Global Financial Cisis(GFC) relatively unscathed the banks were performing well until the commodity boom ended. The stocks of these banks declined some but did not collapse. With the recent recovery in commodities especially in the price of crude oil …
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Algorithms Aren’t Biased, But the People Who Write Them May Be (WSJ) Why are so many active funds underperforming? (CityWire, UK) Schwab Market Perspective: Looking Past the Election (Schwab) and Vertigo: Effect of Spiking Healthcare Costs on Consumers (Schwab) The Tallinn experiment: what happens when a city makes public transport free? (The Guardian) Deducting a Loss in an …
The economies of many emerging and frontier markets are dominated by a small group of companies owned by powerful families. Next to state-owned enterprises these companies usually conglomerates are the major employees in a country. Majority ownership of companies by families has both advantages and disadvantages which I will discuss in a future post. Family-owned …
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The total number of American workers in the manufacturing sector has been on the decline for many years now. Though the sector has seen a slight uptick in the past couple of years the long-term trend line is down. However one of the sectors that has been booming in recent years in terms of workers …
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The average hourly wage for auto workers in Mexico is increasing according to a recent article in the journal. Major automakers expanding or opening factories there are offering higher wages, benefits and incentives to attract workers. The competition among auto makers to attract and retain auto workers is high. Global auto manufacturers flock to Mexico …
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