Covid-19

Protech Home Medical (TSXV: PTQ), Viemed (TSX: VMD) and Richards Packaging (TSX: RPI.UN) are helping the health care system respond to the Covid crisis. [more]

In Q1/2020, REITs have fallen more than 25% in market value, with segments such as “regional malls” dropping as much as 60%. [more]

The US stock market indices had their best week in 45 years and new coronavirus cases & unemployment claims have plateaued, but the VIX is still in a volatile range. [more]

In addition to earlier measures that supplied more than $1 trillion to purchase Treasury and mortgage-backed securities, the new U.S. Fed programs include support for the “Main Street” lending initiative, loans to states and municipalities, and buying “riskier” assets. [more]

COVID-19 is just the catalyst. Almost every government in the world is committing billions or trillions of dollars in attempts to save a collapsing world pandemic economy. [more]

The VIX is in a volatile range, with new coronavirus cases & unemployment claims continuing to rise, and the S&P 500 might still have room to drop. [more]

As the Covid-19 pandemic socially isolates most economies across the world, the business world is quickly changing from office space to remote environments. Companies adapting online focus on three areas of digital transformation: (1) cloud storage, (2) workplace communication, and (3) video conferencing. [more]

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing systemic shifts in the social fabric of world societies, none more so than in the world of economics, which is grappling with a sudden and sharp shift in society’s economic norms. [more]