Business and Finance

This area provides up-to-date and interesting developments from the world of business, economics and finance.

A wealth of information is available on topics ranging from stock markets, consumer climate, labor market policies, bond markets, foreign trade and interest rate trends to stock exchange news and economic forecasts.

Paper or plastic?

When it feels easy to pay for something, it might just make us feel less connected to what we're buying, a new U of T Scarborough study says.

Gearing up for the future: Digital Business Innovation

On Thursday, June 30, 2016, Fraunhofer IAO launched the Business Innovation Engineering Center (BIEC). This initiative is designed as a platform where business…

Intelligent transaction tax could help reduce systemic risk in financial networks

A tax on individual transactions between financial institutions—based on the level of systemic risk that each transaction adds to the system—could essentially…

Is there a bubble in the art market?

Few sectors of the market have rebounded as robustly as art – particularly contemporary art, which has doubled in value since the beginning of the financial…

Finance: Belief in higher returns from private equity may be misplaced

Many investors believe that higher returns can be achieved by investing in funds which buy firms not listed on stock markets (so-called private equity…

RWI/ISL Container Throughput Index: World Trade Remains Sluggish

However, this is not a statistically significant decrease. The average amplitude of revision over the past years was 0.6 points; the June value was revised…

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