Archive for April 11th, 2007
Financial Post reads blogs and competition part 2
11 April 2007Our 7th in a series. Earlier today, FP lecturer Diane Francis discovered that the March 19th budget contained some goofy provisions regarding interest deductibility:
“Two measures in the recent budget have businesses and banks scratching their heads.
Most perplexing is that Canadian corporations cannot write off the interest pawyments on debts used to buy foreign assets. [...]
G-7 looking at hedge funds?
11 April 2007Now this comes as a bit of a surprise. The topic of hedge funds has somehow caught the attention of the G-7 sherpas? This from Bloomberg:
“G-7 Will Likely Comment on Hedge Funds This Week, Official Says
April 11 (Bloomberg) — Finance ministers and central bank governors from the world’s seven leading industrial nations [...]
Honda looks to Canada for VC investments
11 April 2007Courtesy of our friends at the CVCA, word has come to us that Honda Corp. has a captive “VC” group called Honda Strategic Venturing, perhaps in the mold of Intel Capital et al. Our trade commission in Silicon Valley is also trying to build some bridges between these types of corporate “VC” vehicles and [...]
BCE Takeover part 3
11 April 2007Over the past two days, the precision of the dead tree media’s reporting around the pending takeover of BCE Inc. (BCE:TSX) has become quite telling. Make no mistake, you are reading these detailed stories because the company’s LBO suitors want you to.
When we first posted about this topic two weeks ago, the details were [...]