The bad news personal finance story of the year so far is the housing market revival
A housing market revival is both inevitable and justifiable.
But not now, okay? The country can’t take it.
A housing rebound would feed inflation and help keep interest rates at their current heights for longer than previously thought. People who have paid off all or most of their mortgages would benefit from higher home prices, while younger Canadians with big mortgages and other debts would suffer.
Our housing market is built to a large extent on unfairness. Stand by to see how much worse things can get.
Until last week, inflation appeared to be doing a slow fade that would…
Is ecommerce blogging still worth the investment?
30-second summary:
As ecommerce businesses vie for digital visibility, blogging can be a valuable asset that adds an extra push to engage, inform, and acquire consumers
Blogging can be used to attract people who are at the very beginning of their buying journeys
As ecommerce SERPs are highly competitive, blogging opens opportunities like featured snippets, clustered results, and People Also Ask rankings
Your blog can serve as a knowledge hub to build trust and expand your marketing channels
Add elements to your pages to let readers continue their buying journeys across your site
Many e-commerce brands choose not to create…
Geographical proximity key factor in countries’ oil imports: poll
A large oil refinery along the Athabasca River in Alberta’s Oilsands. Fort McMurray, Alberta.
Oil imports from geographically close sources are preferred over supplies from far-flung locations, according to a new public opinion poll of more than 24,000 citizens of 28 countries by Ipsos.
It looked at eight oil-producing jurisdictions: Canada, the United States, Norway, the Middle East, Mexico, Venezuela, Russia, and China. Participants were asked to rank their preferred origin for oil imports between Nov. 18 and Dec. 6, 2022.
Ipsos says aside from geography, the weighted data shows a trend towards choosing suppliers based on shared values, such…
5 Steps to the Best Travel Management Process Flow
If corporate travel management is part of your daily grind, then you probably receive dozens of emails a week with travel requests, questions about itineraries, issues booking flights, last-minute changes, cancellations, and a whole slew of scheduling complications, especially when it’s comes to group booking.
Rather than answering a million emails (and risk dropping the ball or missing out on seats because you couldn’t get to the email fast enough), why not move travel management outside of your email inbox altogether?
Why not track it—as in, see what trips need to be booked and finalized, which ones are ongoing, which…
11 Stories You Need to See
A roundup of the week’s most newsworthy financial industry press releases from PR Newswire, including inflation’s impact on homebuying, CEOs’ pessimistic outlooks, and more.
NEW YORK, Jan. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the finance industry stay on top of the week’s most newsworthy and popular releases, here’s a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn’t be missed.
The list below includes the headline (with a link to the full text) and an excerpt from each story.…
