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Radical Real Estate

For an asset class that is thought of by many to be safe and void of volatility, it has certainly been a wild ride for real estate in Canada over the past couple of years. After soaring to new highs amid the pandemic, Canadian home prices posted a record decline in 2022 as rapidly rising interest rates forced a market adjustment that hasn’t yet shown signs of stopping.

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According to the Canadian Real Estate Association, the country’s benchmark home price fell 1.6% in December to $730,600, bringing the total decrease since last February’s peak to 13.2%. It was the biggest peak-to-trough falloff since the group started compiling the data in 2005, while 2022 also saw the biggest price decline for a calendar year since records began, with a 7.5 per cent drop between this December and last.

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With rate hikes still on the rise, it looks like the slump could continue as buyers stay away as a result of increased borrowing costs which seem to be outweighing the decline in home prices.

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Meme Stock Stalkers

Unchartered Territory

Billionaire entrepreneur Ryan Cohen, put himself in the meme stock hall of fame with the impact he’s had on stocks like Gamestop and Bed Bath & beyond. Now, the activist investor has set his sights on Chinese tech darling, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., but this time, things are going to be a little different.

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Cohen, who believes Alibaba will return to its pre-Covid performance of double-digit growth, has reportedly built up a stake worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and is now pushing for more share buybacks at the Chinese tech giant. The big difference here is that Alibaba doesn’t operate in the same market environment as Cohens past endeavors. Since 2020, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s administration has cracked down hard on growth companies like Alibaba, and only in recent months they’ve seen some relief as the economy tries to rebound from the pandemic.

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To put things into perspective, Alibaba posted a 1% gain following the news of Cohen’s involvement…That 1% might have had a zero or two attached to it if this were another company like Gamestop or Bed Bath.

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ESG

Pfizer Expands Not-For-Profit Program

Pharmaceutical juggernaut Pfizer announced this week a massive expansion of its program that provides medicines and vaccines on a not-for-profit basis in lower income countries, to now include roughly 500 products.

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The program, known as “An Accord for a Healthier World”, launched in May 2022 and initially included a commitment from Pfizer to provide access to all its patented medicines and vaccines available in the U.S. or European Union on a not-for-profit basis, with a goal to reach 1.2 billion people in 45 lower-income countries. The expanded program has a significantly increased scope, increasing the number of available products from 23 to around 500 medicines and vaccines that help to treat or prevent infectious and non-communicable diseases prevalent in lower-income countries.

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