About $53 billion. This is the colossal sum that the Caisse de dépôt et Placement holds in private funds. However, it is impossible to know which companies the money ended up with. • Also read: We secretly invested $1.5 billion of our money • Also read: Foreign managers help the fund The institute flatly refuses … [Read more…]
What amateurism on the part of the government of François Legault and his big boss in the battery sector, Pierre Fitzgibbon, the super-minister of the economy, innovation and energy and head of Investissement Québec. They decided to invest billions of dollars of public money in battery factories without first seriously examining the details of their … [Read more…]
Gift cards make great holiday gifts – as long as you don’t stuff them in a drawer and forget about them after the holidays. Americans are expected to spend nearly $30 billion on gift cards this holiday season, according to the National Retail Federation. Restaurant gift cards are the most popular, accounting for a third … [Read more…]
Florence Lo/Portal In this illustration image, a Tencent Games app logo is seen on a mobile phone. Portal/Florence Lo/Illustration Hong Kong CNN – Shares of several Chinese tech giants slumped in Hong Kong on Friday, shedding billions from their total value, after Beijing unveiled a series of new regulations to curb online spending in the … [Read more…]