Canadian Economy Grows Fastest In Eight Months
Monday, January 31st, 2011 Posted in What's Happening | No Comments »What's Happening - January 31, 2011 Edition Canada Economy Speeds Up - Canadian Economic growth shows its strongest gain in eight months, data released by Statistics Canada on Monday pointed out. Robust oil and gas sector activities fueled this ...
Dow Passes 12,000
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011 Posted in What's Happening | No Comments »Today's What's Happening Dow Passed 12,000 - The Dow Jones industrial average passed 12,000 today for the first time since June 2008. As of now (3.00), Canada's TSX composite is up 1.27% as well. U.S. 2010 New Home ...
US Launches Quantitative Easing Part 2
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010 Posted in What's Happening | No Comments »What's Happening - November 3, 2010 Edition American Central bank, The US Federal Reserve, announced today that it will purchase $600 billion of long term U.S. Treasury bonds over the next eight months, and will reinvest an additional $300 ...
Canada Economy Grows In August
Saturday, October 30th, 2010 Posted in What's Happening | No Comments »What's Happening - October 30, 2010 Edition Canada Economy Rebounds - Stats Canada reports that Canada's GDP grew 0.3 per cent in August, after contracting 0.1 per cent in July. July GDP growth was helped by oil and gas ...
Canada–One Of The World’s Top Ten Least Corrupt Countries
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010 Posted in What's Happening | No Comments »What's Happening - October 26, 2010 Edition On October 1, 2007, I mentioned Canada's comeback in the top ten of the least corrupt countries list. Today, I am excited to let you know that Canada has managed to climb in sixth ...
Canada Holds Key Interest Rate Unchanged At 1%
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 Posted in What's Happening | No Comments »What's Happening - October 19, 2010 Edition Bank of Canada Keeps The Overnight Rate Steady At 1% - After increasing key interest rate consecutively 3 times, 25 basis points each time, from 0.25% to 1.00%, Bank of Canada decided ...
Foreigners Rush To Grab Canadian Bonds
Monday, October 18th, 2010 Posted in What's Happening | No Comments »What's Happening - October 18, 2010 Edition Google Price Index - Financial Times reports that Google is working on a real-time index to measure inflation. GPI or Google Price Index uses web shopping data using online sources. According to ...
Canada Is The First Country In The World To Declare BPA Toxic
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 Posted in What's Happening | No Comments »What's Happening - October 13, 2010 Edition Canada Declares Bisphenol A Toxic - Canada has become the first country to declare BPA, or Bisphenol A, a toxic. BPA is a chemical used to make plastic and can be found in hundreds ...
Google Self-Driving Cars Hit The Roads
Sunday, October 10th, 2010 Posted in What's Happening | No Comments »What's Happening - October 11, 2010 Edition Google Self-Driving Cars Hit The Roads - In a Google Official Blog, software engineer Sebastian Thrun mentions that Google has successfully tested self-driving cars in California. These automated cars have covered 140,000 ...
Will IMF Be The World’s Central Bank? – What’s Happening
Thursday, October 7th, 2010 Posted in What's Happening | No Comments »What's Happening - October 7, 2010 Edition Slow Global Economic Recovery - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says that the world's economic recovery is underway but seems to be unbalanced and sluggish. Emerging and developing countries are recovering stronger ...
