Desjardins Securities has signed a deal with ESN North America which will deliver the research on Canadian companies across Europe. “ESN North America is a natural partner for Desjardins Securities and Desjardins Group as a whole,” says Richard Nadeau, vice-chairman and managing director of capital markets with Desjardins Securities. “They provide access to over 1,200 […]
Although the mainstream media on both sides of the pond are going to town about the proposed LSE-TMX merger, the sense in the Canadian financial industry is that it’s not really going to set the Thames on fire. A deal like this only means two companies are looking to develop or defend their market, says […]
Amid the hand-wringing that the merger of the TMX Group with the LSE would be a loss of sovereignty, a return of our old colonial masters, there’s another deal in the works that should knock the wind out of the assertion that this is an afront to Canadian pride. The Deutsche Borse, the operator of […]
TMX Group, operator of the Toronto Stock Exchange, has announced that it will merge with the London Stock Exchange. The result would be a trans-Atlantic market with a dominant role in capital financing for the mining industry. The spin off for Canadian investors is that the investing population of Britain — more than double that […]
There were a lot of great additions to the English language in 2010. Sarah Palin gave us “refudiate”. The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico gave us several new entries, including “top kill” and “junk shot”. But the catchphrase of the year in financial circles was missed by many in the year-end lists: […]
In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, you’d be forgiven for expecting commodities prices to continue to fall or rise very modestly.