In early April 2026, Bank of Montreal announced and completed several fixed-income offerings, including multiple callable senior and unsecured notes across maturities from 2027 to 2038 in US$ and HK$, while also appointing new leadership in equity capital markets and wealth management. The bank is pairing this funding activity and leadership refresh with a new […]
Social Security needs modest revenue increases and benefit cuts – not extreme borrowing. Larry Fink of BlackRock, in the Annual Chairman’s Letter to Investors, just endorsed the proposal by Senators Cassidy (R-LA) and Kaine (D-VA) to create a trust fund with borrowed funds to solve Social Security’s financing problems. This idea, which has been around […]
The Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust (MSBT), the first spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) offered by a US bank, recorded $30.6 million in inflows on its trading debut, giving the Wall Street bank a respectable entry into the spot Bitcoin ETF market. MSBT started trading on the NYSE Arca on Wednesday, generating $34 million in trading […]
Cousins Properties has closed a new five-year, US$1.20 billion unsecured credit facility, expanding borrowing capacity, lowering spreads over SOFR, and extending term loan flexibility while keeping financial covenants largely unchanged. Separately, Cousins announced a long-term lease with Oracle for 116,000 square feet at its Neuhoff mixed-use project in Nashville, further supporting occupancy across the office-led […]
Jeito Capital, a global private equity firm focused on biopharma, announced the final close of its second fund, Jeito II Fund, at $1.2 billion, exceeding its €1 billion target and marking the largest raise ever achieved by a fully independent European fund dedicated to biopharma. With this milestone, Jeito Capital has tripled its assets under […]
Toronto, Ontario–(Newsfile Corp. – April 8, 2026) – Vital Infrastructure Property Trust (TSX: VITL.UN) (the “REIT” or “Vital Infrastructure”), will release its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026, on Wednesday, May 13, 2026, after the markets close. A conference call to discuss these results will be held on Thursday, May 14, […]
Over the past several years, investors have gotten wealthy focused primarily on tech and growth stocks. But these are no longer the hot themes in 2026. At the beginning of the year, the markets rotated out of these themes and into areas such as value stocks, dividends, international, and small-cap stocks. Investors whose portfolios were […]
RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF HEADINGLEY, MB, April 7, 2026 /CNW/ – Building a strong Canada starts with investing in the infrastructure that makes it possible to increase housing supply and empower communities. In Budget 2025, the Government of Canada announced the Build Communities Strong Fund, a key initiative to build the infrastructure that Canadians rely on every […]
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(Bloomberg) — Samsung Electronics Co. earned a far stronger-than-expected eight-fold leap in quarterly profit, underscoring robust demand for AI memory chips in the face of markets roiled by war in the Middle East. Customers led by cloud service providers are ramping up orders for high-bandwidth memory and other chips used in data centers to feed […]
