Profiting from the pandemic

If there is a crisis to be found in the earnings of Canada’s Big Six banks, it isn’t in how much their profits have been reduced, but rather how high they’ve remained in the face of a global health and economic emergency.
Finance Minister Bill Morneau last month announced $300-million loan program for large corporations. The feds say that companies convicted of tax evasion won't be eligible for the bridge loans.
Canada’s Big Six banks released their second-quarter earnings last week, and with profits cut in half,

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