Friday, October 1, 2021

Financial Post

Financial Post


Merck COVID-19 pill success slams Moderna shares, shakes up healthcare sector

Posted: 01 Oct 2021 10:56 AM PDT

Positive clinical trial results for Merck & Co's experimental antiviral COVID-19 pill reverberated through the healthcare sector on Friday, sending the drugmaker's stock price soaring while denting high-flying shares of vaccine companies and makers of other coronavirus therapies. Read More

Wells Fargo must face shareholder fraud claims over its recovery from scandals

Posted: 01 Oct 2021 10:52 AM PDT

NEW YORK -- A federal judge on Thursday rejected Wells Fargo & Co's bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it defrauded shareholders about its ability to rebound from five years of scandals over its treatment of customers. Read More

Billionaire Charlie Munger’s timely apartment bets began with a Hebrew Bible and an improbable friendship

Posted: 01 Oct 2021 10:51 AM PDT

Billionaire investor Charles Munger made a well-timed bet on suburban apartments — thanks to a neighborhood teenager who showed up at his house with a Hebrew Bible. Read More

Fed’s Mester says she thinks first rate increase could be at the end of 2022

Posted: 01 Oct 2021 10:46 AM PDT

NEW YORK -- The Federal Reserve's conditions for raising interest rates could be met by the end of 2022, Cleveland Fed Bank President Loretta Mester said on Friday. Read More

GM says chip situation improving; reports first sales drop in 4 qtrs

Posted: 01 Oct 2021 10:46 AM PDT

Top U.S. automaker General Motors Co said on Friday the semiconductor chip shortage that has hit production at automakers worldwide was abating, while reporting its first quarterly sales fall in a year. Read More

Charting the Global Economy: U.S., Europe Inflation Accelerates

Posted: 01 Oct 2021 10:45 AM PDT

(Bloomberg) -- Inflation in the U.S. and euro area accelerated by more than expected, adding fuel to a global debate over how long the spike in prices will last. Read More

The Brothers Gharegozlou: Vancouver siblings behind NBA Top Shot phenomenon are just getting started

Posted: 01 Oct 2021 10:35 AM PDT

Somewhere, perhaps nestled deep in a landfill on the outskirts of Paris or maybe gathering dust in the back of a closet in Vancouver, is a blue binder full of Pokémon cards. Read More

Amid supply chain snarls, retailers pitch early holiday shopping

Posted: 01 Oct 2021 10:34 AM PDT

NEW YORK -- Santa's sleigh is coming out of its garage a little earlier this year. Read More

Lawyer who sued Chevron sentenced to six months in contempt case

Posted: 01 Oct 2021 10:22 AM PDT

NEW YORK -- A disbarred American lawyer who spent decades battling Chevron Corp over pollution in the Ecuadorian rainforest was sentenced Friday to six months' imprisonment for criminal contempt charges arising from a lawsuit brought by the oil company. Read More

79North Completes $850,000 Non-Brokered Private Placement

Posted: 01 Oct 2021 10:20 AM PDT

TORONTO, Oct. 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 79North Inc. (CSE: JQ; OTCQB: SVNTF; FRA: 6120) ("79North" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has completed the previously announced non-brokered private placement of the Company consisting of an aggregate of 5,668,300 units of the Company (the "Units") at a price of $0.15 per Unit for aggregate gross proceeds of $850,245 (the "Offering").  The Offering closed in two tranches, the first occurring on August 17, 2021 and the second occurring on the date hereof. Each Unit issued in the Offering consists of one common share of the Company and one-half of one common share purchase warrant (each whole common share purchase warrant, a "Warrant"). Each Warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase one common share of the Company at $0.25 per common share until August 17, 2024. Read More

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