Thursday, July 29, 2021

Financial Post

Financial Post


Who’s Jim Pattison? Empire builder and billionaire — just don’t call him ‘Canada’s Warren Buffett’

Posted: 29 Jul 2021 10:42 AM PDT

How long has Jim Pattison run his namesake company, a sprawling collection of businesses with billions of dollars in annual sales and tens of thousands of employees? Read More

Scarlett Johansson sues Disney over ‘Black Widow’ streaming release – WSJ

Posted: 29 Jul 2021 10:38 AM PDT

Scarlett Johansson, star of the latest Marvel movie "Black Widow," has filed a lawsuit against Walt Disney Co alleging her contract was breached by the company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Read More

Canada looks to women to bolster trades amid post-pandemic labor shortage

Posted: 29 Jul 2021 10:35 AM PDT

OTTAWA -- A shortage of skilled workers is intensifying in Canada, potentially threatening the pace of the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, and that has policymakers looking at a largely untapped market for new construction workers: Women. Read More

U.S. charges Nikola founder Trevor Milton with lying to investors

Posted: 29 Jul 2021 10:32 AM PDT

NEW YORK -- Trevor Milton, the billionaire founder and former chief executive of Nikola Corp, was criminally charged on Thursday with defrauding investors by lying to them about the electric- and hydrogen-powered truck maker. Read More

Foundation Automotive Corp’s Medved Autoplex Expands into Boulder, CO with Second Hyundai Dealership

Posted: 29 Jul 2021 10:30 AM PDT

Coffee, cane and orange crops at risk as temperatures plunge in Brazil

Posted: 29 Jul 2021 10:29 AM PDT

SAO PAULO -- Temperatures fell in swathes of Brazil on Thursday - with rare snowfall overnight in some places - as a polar air mass advanced toward the center-south of the global agricultural powerhouse, threatening coffee, sugarcane and orange https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-grains-weather-idUSKBN2EY1JV crops with frosts. Read More

Transaction in Own Shares

Posted: 29 Jul 2021 10:21 AM PDT

In respect of this arrangement, Exane BNP Paribas will make trading decisions in relation to the Company's securities independently of the Company for a period from 29 July 2021 up to and including 29 December 2021. Read More

China Keeping ‘Open Mind’ on G-7 Talks Aimed at Trade Abuses

Posted: 29 Jul 2021 10:19 AM PDT

(Bloomberg) -- China's ambassador to the World Trade Organization said there's scope for Beijing to work with the U.S., the European Union and other Western nations on an agreement aimed at curbing the practices at the heart of the still-simmering U.S.-China trade conflict."China will keep an open mind to that," Li Chenggang said in an interview in Geneva on Wednesday, his first known talk with a Western media outlet since being appointed in February. "If we have a fair and a frank discussion on the issues, I think China will try its best to keep an open mind."Trade ministers from the world's seven largest advanced economies are working on an initiative aimed at reining in Chinese trade abuses such as forced technology transfer, market-changing industrial subsidies and trade-distorting actions by state enterprises. Read More

Fiscal stimulus, vaccinations lift U.S. economy above pre-pandemic level

Posted: 29 Jul 2021 10:18 AM PDT

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. economy grew solidly in the second quarter, pulling the level of gross domestic product above its pre-pandemic peak, as massive government aid and vaccinations against COVID-19 fueled spending on goods and services. Read More

Morocco trade deficit widens over first half of year

Posted: 29 Jul 2021 10:17 AM PDT

RABAT -- Morocco's trade deficit widened by 13% to 97.4 billion dirhams ($11 billion) in the first half of 2021, the foreign exchange regulator said on Thursday. Read More

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