When ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness in early 2023, financial services firms initially reacted by banning their employees from using it. A year later, many executives are heralding generative AI as transformative for their business. AI as a key theme for 2024 may seem obvious. But what are the other trends that will affect
Published: Jan. 5, 2024 at 4:31 p.m. ET Shares of Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust Un CAR.UT inched 0.04% higher to C$47.65 Friday, in what proved to be an all-around favorable trading session for the Canadian market, with the S&P/TSX Composite Index GSPTSE rising 0.32% to 20,937.55. Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment
One fund to solve all your problems—it’s the dream of every investor who wants the simple life. But for all except aggressive investors with 100% in stocks, it was largely impossible until recently, with interest rates close to 0% before 2022, which rendered the bond portion of any balanced or allocation fund invested in both
Walt Disney is caught in a contentious battle with multiple activist investors. Shareholders should come out ahead no matter who the winner is. Right now, there are no fewer than four activists taking aim at the House of Mouse. That should come as no surprise given that Disney stock has lost more than half its
The Glenwood Baseball-Softball Club (GBSC) is raising funds for its Chris Abbott Scholarship fund by selling t-shirts.The shirts come in long sleeves, short sleeves, or a hoodie. They have “165”, Abbott’s badge number, on them.50 percent of the proceeds will go into the scholarship fund which was created a year ago to honor Abbott.”If they
NEW DELHI: Investor interest in hospitals peaked this year with investments by private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) firms rising by over 15 times to cross Rs 30,000 crore over a 4-year period from Rs 1,921 crore in pre-Covid 2019. This comes even as there is a slowdown in overall funding globally, with PE
At Friday’s price of $21.36, they’re off around 5% since his Dec. 6 critique, while many other real-estate investment trusts have risen by a like percentage in celebration of easing interest rates. Block’s claim that the Blackstone trust will cut its dividend by half—as its borrowers struggle to refinance at higher rates—has stirred the hornet’s
Published: Dec. 29, 2023 at 4:31 p.m. ET Shares of Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust Un CAR.UT shed 0.14% to C$48.80 Friday, in what proved to be an otherwise all-around favorable trading session for the Canadian market, with the S&P/TSX Composite Index GSPTSE rising 0.14% to 20,958.44. Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment
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