iPhone 15 sales are slow, and Barclays expects the same for Apple’s next generation of smartphones

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Posted on January 2, 2024 at 3:12 pm.Updated January 2, 2024 at 3:24 p.m. Apple loses 2% in premarket trading on Wall Street. Barclays downgrades its recommendation, already not very optimistic, from “online weight” to “underweight” at the start of the year, with a target of $160, which implies a 17% decline in Apple’s share … Read more

The political battle over carbon pricing will continue in 2024

The political battle over carbon pricing will continue in 2024

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is putting more pressure on the government to remove carbon pricing entirely. (Photo: The Canadian Press) Carbon pricing is supposed to be a tool to combat climate change, but no other issue is more hotly debated in federal politics. Federal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has had to scrutinize more and more … Read more

Commercial space: growth in certain neighborhoods, stagnation in the city center

Commercial space: growth in certain neighborhoods, stagnation in the city center

Representatives of several local business development groups, SDCs, report falling vacancy rates, even as high inflation and rumors of a recession threaten their post-pandemic recovery. (Photo: The Canadian Press) Wellington Street in Montreal’s Verdun neighborhood is booming, with beautiful storefronts lining the lively pedestrian district. With a commercial vacancy rate estimated by the neighborhood’s trade … Read more

Canada: pension system changes in 2024 for average workers

Canada: pension system changes in 2024 for average workers

Under this policy, Canadian employers match the retirement income of their workers. (Photo: 123RF) Starting Monday, middle-income earners will begin to see more of their paychecks go toward Canada Pension Plan (CPP) contributions. Pension revisions began in 2019 as the Quebec Pension Plan (QPP) and CPP began to phase in expanded benefits to provide Canadians … Read more

Alice & Ambre, “Between a Cookie and a Chip”

Alice & Ambre, "Between a Cookie and a Chip"

(Photo: Facebook) LANAUDIÈRE REGIONAL FOCUS. Changes are on the agenda in 2023 for Frenchman Patrick Mougin, co-founder and president of Alice & Ambre, who fell in love with the Lanaudière region during a home exchange. His young company, founded in 2020, produces Rebon crackers – and since March, tortilla chips – from grain residues from … Read more

The “continuity deal” between Canada and the U.K. after Brexit ends on Sunday

The "continuity deal" between Canada and the U.K. after Brexit ends on Sunday

On Dec. 31, an interim deal will expire that sees Ottawa offer London a special quota of English cheeses that can be imported into Canada at low tariffs. (Photo: The Canadian Press) English cheeses will soon be hard to find in Canadian supermarkets as the two countries still try to negotiate fair trade terms after … Read more