Tens of thousands of Canadian clients of Shaw are suffering what appears to be a nationwide loss of internet, cable and phone services. According to the outage map below, the service interruption is widespread and has impacted most Canadian metropolitan centers.
Shortly before 4pm ET, the telecom company posted to its website advising that an outage was in progress and pologizing:
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Source: GrrrGraphics.com
Another day, another market record, this time in nice round numbers, as the Nasdaq hits new all time highs, rising above 6,000 for the first time ever ...
... driven by the familiar five tech giants Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, which together now account for over 10% of the total US market cap.
Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Last week, I wrote a post titled, What Can an Overhyped Silicon Valley Juice Company Tell Us About the U.S. Economy. Here’s how I ended the piece:
Even as the US retail industry is in a tailspin of historic proportions, the ad spending market must be better than ever, because on Monday Google parent Alphabet closed up 2.3% at a new record high, and as Bloomberg pointed out, the company's market value crossed above $600 billion for the first time ever.
Investors chose not to wait for GOOGL earnings, and bought up shares ahead of the announcement driven by positive analyst comments ahead of 1Q results on April 27 and as the S&P North American tech index rose 1.4% with broader markets rallying.