BC forestry majors invested $6 billion elsewhere in 2021

Canfor Corporation (TSX:CFP) is capping 2021 with another investment outside of B.C. – bringing the total investment of B.C.’s forestry majors outside of B.C. to roughly $6 billion this year alone. Canfor on Thursday announced it is buying Millar Western Forest...

Bank of Montreal strikes US$16.3 billion deal for Bank of the West

The Bank of Montreal has agreed to buy BNP Paribas’ U.S. banking subsidiary, Bank of the West, for $16.3 billion in cash. The deal, announced Monday, would expand the presence here of one of Canada’s largest banks by combining the $105 billion-asset Bank of the West...

Bitcoin ‘may not last that much longer,’ academic warns

Eswar Prasad, senior professor of international trade policy at Cornell University, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” earlier this month: “Bitcoin itself may not last that much longer.” Bitcoin’s price has been highly volatile over the last few years and in the last...
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