Covid-19 Daily News Updates – Download December 29, 2020

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Federal News

• The Federal cabinet is to decide in early January whether to approve Air Canada’s $180 million purchase of its smaller rival Air Transat, amid concerns the anticipated merger would choke competition and result in higher prices for passengers.
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• Experts say the new year is likely to continue to bring higher prices across many categories of spending, with the demand for non-essential purchases potentially resuming towards the end of the coming year. RBC has forecasted a 2-2.5% rise in food prices for 2021.
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Provincial News

• Quebec’s Caisse de depot et placement to invest $1 billion into an offshore windfarm near Taiwan. With the investment, the Caisse with its Taiwanese partner Cathay PE will jointly acquire 50% of the Grand Changhua 1 offshore wind farm.
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• Montreal hospital administrators and front-line workers are said to be bracing for a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations in a week or two, which is in line with the government’s projections last week warning of over-capacity as early as January 12.
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USA News

• U.S. treasury yields move higher ahead of senate vote on the COVID relief package. Yield on the benchmark 10-year treasury note was higher at 0.9431%, while the yield on the 30-year treasury bond was also higher at 1.6844%. Yields moved inversely to prices.
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• Cloud software vendor, Qualtrics, are about to go public with initial price range of $20 to $24 a share, which would value the company at $12 billion to $14.4 billion, up from the $8 billion that SAP paid when it acquired Qualtrics. The firm is to be listed on Nasdaq as ticker “XM”.
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International News

• China and EU are close to reaching a long-awaited business investment deal. The agreement, expected to be finalized this week, would give EU firms better access to the Chinese market, and improve competition conditions.
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• A new study suggests Britain needs to vaccinate 2 million people a week in order to avoid a third wave of the virus. The study also reports that in the absence of a substantial vaccine roll-out plan, cases, hospitalizations, ICU admissions and deaths could surpass those from 2020.
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