Trump Tariff Blitz Unleashes Delayed Shock to Global Economy August 1, 2025 By Philip J. Heijmans, Swati Pandey and Katia Dmitrieva Four months after Donald Trump shocked the world and roiled markets by unveiling a placard full of tariff rates at...
Jobless Ranks May Be Inflated by Millions of Gig Workers November 16, 2018 By Katia Dmitrieva The hardest people to pin down in America’s labor market may be the gig workers: How many hours do they...
Gig Worker Population Not as Big as Expected. Maybe. June 8, 2018 By Katia Dmitrieva The share of American workers in the “gig economy” has shrunk since 2005, according to a government report that some...
Canada Pension Fund to Commit $1B to Fairfax’s Deal with Allied: Sources January 25, 2017 By Katia Dmitrieva and Scott Deveau Prem Watsa’s Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. is close to announcing a deal that would see one of Canada’s largest pension...
Fairfax in Talks with OMERS to Help Finance $4.9B Allied World Takeover: Source January 6, 2017 By Katia Dmitrieva Prem Watsa’s Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. is in talks with the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) to see if...
Fairfax Plans to Raise $1 Billion in IPO for Fund to Make Africa Investments December 28, 2016 By Katia Dmitrieva Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd., the Canadian insurer that made its largest acquisition last week, is selling shares in an initial...
Canada’s Fairfax to Buy Switzerland’s Allied World for $4.9B in Cash, Stock December 19, 2016 By Katia Dmitrieva, Matthew Monks and Scott Deveau Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd., the Canadian investment and insurance company, agreed to buy Allied World Assurance Co. for $4.9 billion...
China’s Anbang Insurance Set to Buy Toronto Tower for at Least $395M: Source November 17, 2016 By Katia Dmitrieva China’s Anbang Insurance Group Co. is set to purchase an office and retail tower in downtown Toronto that counts the...
Alberta Wildfires to Cost Insurers About $2.8B, in Canada’s Costliest Disaster July 8, 2016 By Katia Dmitrieva The wildfires that tore across the oil-producing region of Canada this year will cost insurers about C$3.58 billion ($2.8 billion)...
Alberta Wildfires Spare Almost 90% of Fort McMurray, Canada’s Energy Hub May 10, 2016 By Katia Dmitrieva, Rebecca Penty and Robert Tuttle The massive wildfires that swept through Canada’s energy hub of Fort McMurray left almost 90 percent of the city intact,...