This is a rather unusual move that certainly raises questions around how far the Trump administration is willing to go to defend its protectionist policies and whether intervening in the private
sector will become a norm.
Cannabis is
a sector that's soon to be a large market — probably a $ 20 billion market within two to five years.
The iShares JPMorgan USD Emerging Markets Bond fund, an index product that tracks
the sector, has a trailing 12 - month yield of 4.33 percent.
The consumer staples
sector was slightly higher with convenience store chain Alimentation Couche - Tard down 20 cents to $ 62.08.
It's an ambitious goal, but he believes Artika's early - adopter positioning and finely calibrated culture of innovation will allow it to lead in a white - hot
sector.
Lorenzo Simonelli discusses Baker Hughes» merger with General Electric and what's ahead for the oil and gas
sector.
That's precisely what Mr Ripper's now - canned legislation proposed, indicating he'd learned from the duo's bungled gas
sector experience.
So it's no surprise, German electricity
sector emissions are actually rising slightly — and the country's leaders are now considering scrapping an ambitious climate goal for 2020.
The July crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange lost 20 cents to US$ 98.24 and the energy
sector dipped 0.45 per cent.
More than 56 % of American workers — about 60 million — are subject to mandatory arbitration clauses that cover all kinds of claims, including sexual harassment, according to the Economic Policy Institute's survey of nonunion private -
sector employers.
A private
sector advisory group is calling for TPP language to be included in the NAFTA renegotiation.
Canada has become an unlikely hub for the development of e-commerce platforms, with market leader Shopify, big - brand focused Elastic Path and small storefront ShopLocket all coming out of this country's tech
sector.
But until companies in
the sector are consistent in how they report and the information they provide, accurate comparisons aren't possible, he acknowledges.
According to WorkSafe statistics, there are about 126,000 small businesses in WA, accounting for 96.5 per cent of all private
sector businesses.
Experienced investors such as Gavin Rezos and Tony Grist have shone brightly as the technology
sector has attracted growing interest.
The company's share price rose 6 percent in early trading on Friday after at least 14 Wall Street brokerages raised their price targets on the stock - a measure of the confidence around the stock among
sector analysts.
Biotech is a «crazy» industry, in that there's no easy way to measure a company's worth, because actually helping patients is at least 10 years away, explains Brian Bloom, president of Bloom, Burton & Co., a Toronto - based investment bank focused on the health - care
sector.
«Movenpick marks an acceleration towards its development in the luxury part of
the sector, as well as the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific,» said Roche Brune Asset Management fund...
T - Mobile CEO John Legere and Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure speak to «Squawk on the Street» about inking the $ 26 billion deal that could shake up the telecommunications
sector.
These programs provide free one - on - one mentoring and low - cost training opportunities for their clients in locations around the country, using a combination of federal funds, state and local government contributions, and private
sector resources.
The Solar Energy Industries Association has projected 23,000 job losses this year in
a sector that employed 260,000.
«The U.S. has very mature investors for
the sector, but the Asian investors are quite new to it,» said Li Hang, head of Greater China equity capital markets at investment bank CLSA.
There's plenty of cross-pollination between public planning departments and the private
sector.
ASG Group's takeover negotiations with potential suitors mark a trend of merger and acquisition activity in Western Australia's IT and communications
sector.
The state's business
sector is making major efforts to reduce overall power consumption while moving towards greater use of renewable energy generation.
While there are a few firms in Canada targeting Series A rounds (as Lacavera plans to), there are usually only one or two names per
sector.
But with the Republican bill in need of major surgery, the politics for the president are straightforward: Going after the industry, one of the country's least popular, would fulfill a promise he made to cash - strapped voters; it would allow him to highlight the unsavory deal the Obama administration cut with
the sector to buy its neutrality during the original consideration of the law; and it would generate tens of billions of dollars Republicans could use to preserve some coverage for the estimated 24 million who'd lose it under their initial proposal.
But she might do better to look to the private
sector for her down - the - ticket partner.
U.S. indexes were mainly lower amid earnings reports from the American banking
sector and data showing a continuing decline in jobless insurance claims and tame inflation.
«Quebec's so dominant that all the others are in the shade,» says Stephen Page, a maple - and - honey -
sector specialist at Agriculture and Agri - Food Canada.
We're going to support spending on infrastructure and supporting private
sector development and supporting citizens but within the ceilings that we've announced,» he said.
It's possible Trump was referring to the larger mining and logging
sector, which now boasts about 715,000 jobs — up from 673,000 in January, according to the BLS.
RECENT acquisitions across the ICT
sector have boosted local companies» revenue, but the challenge ahead is whether continued growth can be achieved organically.
People aren't as worried about a Canadian housing crash as they used to be, and the Canadian financial
sector — our other big industry — continues to be a well - run oligopoly.
Breaking the figures down further, the EIA estimates that «space cooling» — in other words, air conditioning — was the single biggest use of electricity in the U.S. residential
sector.
The sector is further along the cyclical timeline than oil, because its own price fall happened five years ago instead of two.
NEW DELHI, May 2 - India's cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal to help sugar mills by paying the cane farmers that supply them a subsidy for their produce, a government source said, as part of efforts to help
a sector struggling with a glut.
Fourth - quarter profits in Exxon's downstream
sector, which is focused on refining crude oil into fuels like gasoline, also rose $ 323 million from a year earlier.
But while Saunders» resume may ultimately be defined by his role in several massive mergers, his reputation in biotech is rooted in a rock»em, sock»em approach to deal - making which has led to his reputation as one of the industry's biggest boosters — especially in a year when biotech has been hopelessly floundering in the marketplace, with major
sector indices plunging by 20 %.
Recently, the degree to which the 2018 market - leading consumer discretionary
sector is outperforming the biggest laggard, consumer staples, has reached extremes, said Larry McDonald, editor of the Bear Traps Report.
In December, the kingdom announced a 72 billion riyal ($ 19.2 billion) stimulus package to encourage growth in the private
sector in 2018.
Can Canada's manufacturing
sector once again generate major growth for the economy as it did in the decades before oil and other commodity prices surged to record highs?
For the last few years, the financial technology
sector has been dominated by consumer - facing solutions.
But Quebec's factious maple
sector raises concerns for its suitability in realizing that potential.
The company also made waves as part of the insurer exodus from the individual insurance
sector (including Obamacare marketplaces), which led to almost $ 700 million in losses between 2014 and 2016, according to Aetna.
However, if the provinces refuse to play ball, the end result may bedevil Canada's financial
sector with more bureaucracy, rather than streamlining and strengthening it.
Not all local stockbrokers have been hit by falling commodity prices and the downturn in the mining
sector.
In the gas - energy
sector WA industry and consumers therefore faced two public monopolies — Alinta and the DBNGP — after they were hived - off from SECWA.
«It continues to be a fluid situation,» said Vivien Azer, a managing director and senior research analyst for the cannabis
sector at Cowen.
The mining
sector is still providing abundant work opportunities for law firms, from contract disputes to potential private equity acquisitions.