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As we all know, the Canadian grocery business is a giant national price-gouging cabal of oligopolistic profiteers that rips off consumers and drives food inflation to levels that are causing great pain throughout the economy.

Canada’s current immigration policy — among the most open in the world — is now causing economic damage and needs to be reconsidered, according to the country’s top economists.

Hertz Global Holdings Inc. plans to sell a third of its United States electric vehicle fleet and reinvest in gas-powered cars due to weak demand and high repair costs for its battery-powered options.

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has claimed that he will produce the best quality beef in the world and he has hooked the cows to beer to achieve this target. The Meta boss believes the alcoholic animals are primed for the slaughterhouse with a few tipples in their system. He has claimed to get some exceptional quality beef cuts by stuffing the cows full of beer and macadamia nuts. Zuckerberg appears to have his Hawaiin ranch stuffed full of cattle who are feasting on a «macadamia meal and drinking beer that we grow and produce here on the ranch.»

personal loans are usually on a higher side, they can at least meet the urgent need of finances as and when they arise. Raising a personal loan is super easy if you are a salaried employee. The documents required for the same include the past three months’ salary slips, bank statement and ID proof documents such as driving license or Aadhaar card.

I’m changing the way I do the monthly CPI analysis. Doing it live for an audience was always stressful, especially with the inevitable data issues from time to time.

(Reuters) -U.S. stock index futures declined on Friday as weak earnings reports from big banks sparked worries about the health of corporate America, while investors awaited an inflation report during the day for clues on monetary policy outlook.

Rates on some fixed mortgages have dropped by a full percentage point in the past few months, opening up an opportunity for Canadians eyeing the spring housing market or with a mortgage of their own up for renewal.

Former Reagan economist Art Laffer discusses inflation, recession concerns and the impact of the election on the economy.

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The Securities and Exchange Board of India is proposing to start same-day settlement from March, before moving to a real-time process in 2025. The shorter cycles will be optional for investors and run alongside the existing system where trades are settled in one day, or T+1 in industry parlance. Global appetite for quicker resolution has grown after a spike in prices of ‘meme stocks’ in 2021 left brokers like Robinhood Markets Inc.

Nikhil Nigania, Director,Bernstein, says “in almost all power shortage cycles, ideally the guy who makes the most money is the person with the merchant power plant. The same thing happened with Jindal Steel and Power last time, which we do not cover. But this time around, there are a few entities who have merchant power plants. JSPL, has moved the merchant plants to the promoter from the listed entity. But entities with merchant plants can make the benefit of the high power price on the power exchange.” When we have to pick out the winners in the power sector, what is going to be a different story this time? Where should one be looking? Nikhil Nigania: If we compare the last power cycle, which went on till 2012, versus the current cycle which started a year and a half back, the primary difference was last time there was consistent power shortage throughout the day because we did not have enough private sector participation. It was largely state-owned enterprises which were setting up power plants back then. This time around, while the private sector participation was strong earlier, now we have a unique situation where, due to addition of largely solar capacity, we have shortage in the non-solar as of today.

APM Terminals has signed an agreement with Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) to develop a new container terminal at the proposed Vadhavan Port project in Maharashtra. The mega project will be set up at an estimated cost of Rs 76,220 crore and have a capacity to handle annual cargo of 23 million twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEUs)/ 254 million tonne.

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Infosys Ltd's stock is up by over 7% on Friday after its December-quarter earnings turned out to be not as bad as was feared. Amid global demand uncertainty and seasonal weakness, information technology investors were bracing for dismal December-quarter (Q3FY24) results from IT companies. But in a partial sigh of relief, Infosys' constant currency revenue had declined sequentially by 1%, whereas the consensus estimate was for a fall of 1.5%.

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By David Milliken and William Schomberg

BEIJING — Chinese augmented reality glasses and software company Rokid this week announced it raised 500 million yuan ($70 million) in a funding round led by the government of Hefei city.

exported over 5m cars in 2023, exceeding the Japanese total. China’s biggest carmaker, BYD, sold 0.5m electric vehicles (EVs) in the fourth quarter, leaving Tesla in the dust. Chinese EVs are so snazzy, whizzy and—most important—cheap that the constraint on their export today is the scarcity of vessels for shipping them.

water purifiers in our daily lives cannot be overstated. These appliances play a crucial role in safeguarding our health by removing contaminants from water, a necessity in many households today due to the health risks associated with impure water. The necessity for water purification stems from the presence of various contaminants in water sources.