Barbara Shecter
Senior Business Writer at National Post
Senior Business Writer at Financial Post
Veteran business correspondent at National Post/Financial Post. Coverage includes: finance, pensions, regulation, governance, ESG. [email protected]
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6 days ago |
financialpost.com | Barbara Shecter
30 years ago this country faced a downgrade and IMF warning over ballooning debt. If the new leader is not careful we could be headed that way againArticle contentElection front-runners Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre are making promises that sound like those made in most other elections as they crisscross the country: new spending and tax cuts on things people want to hear about, such as housing and energy, and vague promises to pay for it by trimming the fat.
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1 week ago |
financialpost.com | Barbara Shecter
Advertisement 1Spiking yields are credited with forcing the president's stunning about-face on tariffs. Here's why bonds are bossArticle contentLast week, U.S. President Donald Trump pushed pause on the sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs he had placed on more than 50 countries earlier in the month. Stocks had plunged in response to the original plan, spooking investors and Wall Street.
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1 week ago |
ca.finance.yahoo.com | Barbara Shecter
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said their goal was to get long-term rates down, which made the fact that yields were rising “a real problem,” Porter said. U.S. Treasuries are the global lending market benchmark, used by banks around the world to price other instruments, so unusual activity in that bond market can have ripple effects on a host of other markets.
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2 weeks ago |
financialpost.com | Barbara Shecter
Former senior Google executive joins board of directors of local Canadian publisher Richard Gingras is to chair the board of Sault Ste. Marie's Village Media Inc. after serving as global VP of news at the tech giant Get the latest from Barbara Shecter straight to your inboxRichard Gingras was Google’s global vice-president for news for several years before stepping back to a senior advisor position at the tech giant. Village Media, which is based in Sault Ste.
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2 weeks ago |
editorandpublisher.com | Barbara Shecter
A former senior executive at Google LLC is joining a local Canadian publisher, Village Media Inc., as chair of its board of directors. Richard Gingras was Google’s global vice-president for news for several years before stepping back to a senior adviser position at the tech giant. Village Media, which is based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, owns and operates 26 local news sites in Ontario and five other news-related sites.
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