Description: The collapse of WeWork’s attempted IPO – the firm once valued at $47 billion but now at the brink of bankruptcy – marks the end of an era, according to Mike Wilson, Morgan Stanley’s chief U.S. equity strategist. According to Wilson, investors have showed that they are no longer willing to accept financial excess in a… Read more »
Monthly Archives: October 2019
As Trans Mountain flies under the election radar, a missed opportunity
Description: Despite the controversy over the federally-owned Trans Mountain expansion project in the last few years, the pipeline has largely been flying under the radar in this election campaign. Source: BNNBloomberg.com – video report Date: Oct 04, 2019 Link: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/as-trans-mountain-flies-under-the-election-radar-a-missed-opportunity-1.1326709 Questions for discussion: Summarize the status of the pipeline deal. What do you think will… Read more »
Behind the GM strike: Declining productivity at U.S. operations – Reuters analysis
Description: (Reuters) – General Motors Co’s <GM.N> U.S. workforce productivity has declined since the automaker recovered from a 2009 bankruptcy, even as its profit per employee has risen, a Reuters analysis shows. Source: Yahoo.Finance.com Date: Oct 04, 2019 Link: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/behind-gm-strike-declining-productivity-213655945.html Questions for discussion: How does the productivity issue affect employment, investment, and marketing of GM… Read more »
As Silicon Valley faces a tech reckoning, biologists point to the next big opportunity
Description: At one of the world’s largest synthetic biology conferences this week, a food truck handed out papaya and yogurt samples to hundreds of attendees. The papaya wasn’t any ordinary papaya: It was a genetically engineered fruit that Dr. Dennis Gonsalves designed to be naturally resistant to the ringworm virus. Because of his invention, pesticide use dropped… Read more »
