Amazon, Meta and Apple beat revenue expectation, see shares jump – National
Amazon.com beat fourth-quarter revenue expectations on Thursday as new generative AI features in its cloud and ecommerce businesses spurred robust growth during the critical holiday period, sending its shares up eight per cent after the market close. The company forecast current-quarter revenue of $138 billion to $143.5 billion. Analysts polled by LSEG expect $142.13 billion. […]
Interest rates – high or low – won’t solve housing problems, Macklem says – National
While the Bank of Canada continues to grapple with the high cost of housing in its quest to tamp down inflation, the governor of the central bank is telling lawmakers that monetary policy isn’t going to fix affordability issues in the market. Tiff Macklem spoke to members of Parliament on the finance committee in Ottawa […]
EU Agrees to $54 Billion Fund for Ukraine
Some European leaders jested they’d send Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary their hotel bills for the extra nights they had to spend in Brussels to convince him to support funding for Ukraine. Others, less jokingly, relayed to him he was facing the risk of a legal suspension from E.U. proceedings. And a few offered […]
As Dry Feb begins, is there a ‘growing desire’ for alcohol abstention? – National
Can you abstain from alcohol for a month? That is the core question of the Canadian Cancer Society’s Dry Feb, a fundraising campaign challenging Canadians to hold off on consuming their favourite alcoholic beverages for a month, while raising funds for cancer research. With campaigns such as Dry Feb and Dry January, and the growing […]
Rogers CEO ‘not concerned’ about wireless customers leaving despite price hikes
The chief executive of Rogers Communications Inc. dismissed analyst concerns about wireless customers leaving the carrier, saying the company was focused on its premium brand where performance was stronger. Speaking Thursday on the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call, Rogers CEO Tony Staffieri said there was a “heightened level of what I would call promotional activity in […]
I Tested a Next-Gen AI Assistant. It Will Blow You Away
The most famous virtual valets around today—Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant—are a lot less impressive than the latest AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT or Google Bard. When the fruits of the recent generative AI boom get properly integrated into those legacy assistant bots, they will surely get much more interesting. To get a preview of what’s […]
Why a strong U.S. economy might delay rate cuts in Canada – National
Tailwinds from south of the border could give a lift to the Canadian economy and end up pushing back the timeline for interest rate cuts as the Bank of Canada tries to keep pace with the United States Federal Reserve, some economists say. Canada’s economy showed signs of life to end 2023, data released Wednesday […]
New treatment hope for blood cancer patients
A new injection can help the immune system to attack and destroy cancerous cells. Source link
Inside the Beef Industry’s Campaign to Influence Schoolchildren
Science teachers in many states are currently updating their lessons to incorporate the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)—a set of teaching guidelines that encourage educators to place more emphasis on how science is used in the real world. AFBFA funding documents show that the foundation intends to use the adoption of the NGSS as an […]
Women on gynae waiting lists 'feel abandoned'
A review of gynae services in NI finds that more than 37,000 women are on hospital waiting lists. Source link