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Top markets for Canada real estate are in Ontario (Getty) Homebuyers are used to Canada’s real estate prices being led higher by big cities like Toronto, but few anticipated what would unfold in smaller cities and towns when COVID-19 hit. The pandemic made many rethink their living situation. Working from home while being cooped up in a small condo wasn’t working, and big-city living was expensive. So, buyers sought out more space and decided to drive until they qualify, especially in Ontario… Source link

Super Bowl LVI ads are sold out of every in-game unit across NBC (CMCSA), Telemundo and all digital platforms — including its fledgling streaming platform Peacock, with some 30-second spots selling for a record $7 million. Like everything nowadays, it’ll cost more for brands to advertise at the big game. Variety reported that the average Super Bowl LVI ad sold for about $6 million for a 30-second spot — up from last year’s $5.5 million. But is the ultra high price-tag worth it? “The short… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Thursday, November 18, 2021 A link between fatter paychecks, bargain hunting and plastic  It’s common knowledge that inflation is eating away at consumers’ ability to spend, as the most basic necessities like groceries and energy extend a relentless spike. Less understood, however, is exactly why consumers keep opening their wallets as prices… Source link

Just days from now, Biden is set to gamble a proposed $2.5 trillion on a new plan, in hopes of bringing America’s foundation into the next generation. It’s coming in the form of the biggest infrastructure project since the highway system was built in the 1970s. But with today’s massive infrastructure bill, most people might be missing the real story. That’s because typical “infrastructure” pieces like roads, highways, and bridges don’t even make up the biggest part of the bill. Instead,… Source link

The Google name is displayed outside the company’s office in London, Britain November 1, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo July 1 (Reuters) – Workers identifying as “Black+” or “Latinx+” left Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google at higher rates last year than in 2019, the company said on Thursday in its latest annual diversity report, highlighting a persistent challenge to growing representation. What Google calls an attrition index, with 100 as a baseline, registered at 121 last year for… Source link

Soaring home prices made you house-rich? Here’s how to make the most of it The U.S. real estate market is often depicted these days as a place where the dreams of first-time homebuyers go to die. But it can be easy to forget (or ignore) just how positive an impact homeownership has on Americans lucky enough to survive the gauntlet. Thanks to escalating home prices, approximately 46 million homeowners were sitting on a record $7.3 trillion in equity at the end of 2020, according to mortgage… Source link

In the past few years, we’ve seen six ESG megatrends on the rise with trillions of dollars being invested into them, from cloud computing and clean water, to finance, resource efficiency and the mega of ESG megatrends–EVs. If 2020 was the year that broke the ESG bank. This year, and next, might see investors start to reap the rewards of Biden’s ultimate “green presidency”. In March, Biden unveiled a $2.3-trillion infrastructure plan. On Earth Day, Biden pledged to half U.S. greenhouse… Source link

Over 85 years ago, America undertook one of the most ambitious projects in our nation’s history, and it helped launch the creation of $30 trillion in ESG assets. At the time, they planned to build a dam to help deal with massive flooding issues… But this ended up providing green electricity to millions of people across 3 states in the process. And today, Biden could be set to take a page from this American success story, creating the next crown jewel of American infrastructure. It could… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Palantir Technologies Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. are uniting in a partnership that will dramatically expand the reach of Palantir’s sales force while making IBM’s own artificial-intelligence software easier for non-technical customers to use, the companies plan to announce Monday. The global partnership is the largest of its kind for Palantir, the maker of data-analysis software whose shares have more than quadrupled since its September debut on the New… Source link

The No. 12 largest cryptocurrency, with a market cap of $6.1 billion, is a joke. Dogecoin (DOGE) started out as a joke in 2013 and is still a joke today—but its value is up 380% in the past month, 696% this year so far. The coin has ridden the same Reddit-driven retail investor wave as stocks like GameStop and AMC over the past two weeks, further accelerated by a handful of cheeky Elon Musk tweets pumping dogecoin. On Jan. 28, dogecoin became the most tweeted-about cryptocurrency in a single… Source link