Chequing accounts are essential to everyday banking. Canadians use them to complete many (if not most) of their day-to-day financial transactions, including bill payments, point-of-sale purchases, ATM withdrawals and money transfers. Although chequing accounts have a reputation for being, well, boring, the ones at the...
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It appears the rising AI tide continues to lift all boats in the U.S. tech sector. Deal-seeking customers power Dollarama It was a quiet week for Canadian earnings announcements, with Dollarama (DOL/TSX) being the only large company to release quarterly results. Some Canadian investors...
By Keph Senett and Winston Sih on June 13, 2024Estimated reading time: 15 minutes Canadians love travel and shopping, but when using their credit cards outside of Canada, many pay foreign transaction fees—as much as 2.5%—on every purchase, and that’s on top of the...
In fact, it’s not a deal. At all. Stock splits sound great. After all, shareholders will get nine additional shares for every one they already own. However, when you evaluate your holdings in your portfolio, those extra shares don’t change anything. Whether...
Data analytics helps companies do everything from reducing equipment downtime to improving supply chain management, customer satisfaction and fraud detection. For example, research by IBM suggests there’s a significant opportunity for Canadian companies to combine improved data analytics with cybersecurity to reduce...
The Montreal-based company says it acquired the additional stake in exchange for 6,060,478 Dollarama common shares. The shares were worth a total of about $761.7 million based on Dollarama’s share price of $125.68 on Tuesday. Dollarama acquires Dollarcity Dollarama also has acquired an option...
Core inflation and rising prices These so-called “core” prices are expected to have risen 0.3% from April to May, the same as in the previous month, according to a survey of economists by data provider FactSet. Compared with a year earlier, core inflation...
Fraud targeting homeowners Image by pch.vector on Freepik ACE also warns of a new (as of January 2022) Ontario scheme I’d not previously heard of: the Cross-Ontario Mortgage & Notice Of Security Interest (NOSI) Scheme. It involves a mortgage or lien that has been registered to the...
For instance, at the time I researched this article, Costco was selling a Ring Battery Doorbell bundled with an Indoor Cam for $209.99, and Best Buy had the same package on sale for $184.99 ($25 off). Reflecting their different business models, on Costco’s website only...
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