Industry

Intuit can be a core portfolio investments as it focuses on “sticky” software solutions, such as accounting, that are used every day, and are leveraging innovative technologies to disrupt processes most likely to be around for the near term. [more]

BlackRock announced the acquisition of Dream Global Real Estate Investment Trust, a Canadian Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT) focused on European property, primarily in Germany and the Netherlands [more]

We are taking advantage of the surge in the share prices of the oil stocks today to update our Oil Portfolio. Finally, we are in positive territory, which actually happened last Thursday and the first time since the Portfolio was begun at the beginning of June. [more]

Ontario only managed to generate C$19 million in tax revenue compared with Colorado’s US$250 million [more]

In the US, yields for maturities one year and out all rose dramatically last week. No change for Canada. [more]

Of five big IPOs this year (Fiverr, Lyft, Pinterest, Slack, and Uber), only Lyft and Fiverr had great opening days, but Pinterest is the only company of the five that is currently trading higher than its IPO. [more]

Bill would reclassify some contractors as employees targeting companies such as Uber & Lyft [more]

U.S. Youth Vaping Epidemic and Vaping-Related Deaths Cast Shadow as Canada set to Legalize Cannabis Extract Products [more]