Description: Technology giant Samsung cheered up its investors recently through a major share repurchase. With profits falling, Samsung dug into its treasure chest of cash to placate investors, giving it time to rethink strategy. Samsung appears to be following the trend of several US technology companies that have used their cash surpluses to buy back… Read more »
Posts By: Brent White
Canada Post posts profits
Description: A few months ago, Canada Post was crying poor, predicting it would lose over $270 million before taxes. In this climate of loss, Canada Post announced an end to home delivery of mail in an effort to cut costs. This past week, however, Canada Post announced it has income of over $80 million for… Read more »
Jack Johnson’s Woes
Description: Hockey star Jack Johnson is reportedly bankrupt. Despite earning roughly $18 million over his career, it appears that bad advice – and perhaps some misadventures by his parents – have led to his financial downfall. Johnson claims to have secured a new team of advisers to assist him in sorting his way out of… Read more »
Concerns raised on car loans
Description: Auto and finance industry executives are voicing misgivings over the move towards long-term car loans of seven or eight years. The big fear: car owners will start returning vehicles prior to the expiry of the loans, creating a dilemma when they try to finance a new vehicle while the original car loan exceeds the… Read more »
Harnessing highest tides
Description: A 10 tonne turbine – worth multi-millions of dollars- was disabled in three weeks in an attempt to test the electricity generating potential of the Fundy tides. But the Irish company, Open Hydro, is back to the Bay of Fundy again in its ongoing efforts to harness the this possible generation opportunity. Some experts… Read more »
Full disclosure; still waiting
Description: Canadian banks have improved their disclosures since the financial crisis. But these improvements may not have gone far enough. For instance, many investors may know that bankers have lobbied our federal government concerning its attention to transaction fees on credit cards. Yet, because of the banks’ disclosure practices, many of these same investors would… Read more »
And speaking of corruption . . .
Description: Canadian companies have been lobbying the federal government to delay implementing its new anti-corruption rules. Public Works and Government Services Canada has been threatening to de-list suppliers – including major names such as HP and Siemens – for up to 10 years because of convictions for corruption in foreign countries. Public Works points out… Read more »
Big banks busted
Description: Following on the heels of the Libor scandal (in which banks were found out for manipulating short term interest rates), on Wednesday documents disclosed that six large banks were fined $4.3 billion (yes, that’s billion with a “B”) for manipulating the foreign exchange market. Additional fines and civil suits could keep this nasty story… Read more »
Just in case
Description: With oil prices continuing to head south, resource companies have to reconsider their capital plans. Recently, Canada Natural Resources Ltd (CNRL) announced that it may be required to revisit its over $8 billion capital budget in the face of these resource price declines. Investors threaten to punish energy companies that do not show themselves nimble… Read more »
Kia, Hyundai pay $100 million fine
Description: It’s a tad more than your average traffic ticket. Automakers Hyundai and Kia (which are both controlled by Hyundai) paid $100 million in fines for over-stating gas mileage figures on automobile window stickers. The overstatements were detected by the US Environmental Protection Agency in its audits of audit company test results. In addition to the… Read more »
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