Bloomberg In the past five years, Parkland Fuel Corp. has more than tripled its market value by snapping up gas stations, propane distributors and other types of fuel sellers across Canada. Its next wave of acquisitions may be in the US. Since Chief Executive Officer Bob Espey took the helm in 2011, Parkland has struck 18 deals valued at ...

  Bloomberg After half a decade of negative interest rates, Denmark’s housing market looks like it can only move in one direction: up. Michael Rasmussen, the chief executive officer of Nykredit Realkredit A/S, the biggest Danish mortgage lender, says the “tailwind” looks like it will last. “We have a strong real estate market and we, of course, benefit from that. ...

  It’s always worth re-evaluating one’s views, and my latest revision is that the euro currency is better and less vulnerable than I had thought. I still believe its creation and later expansion were mistakes, but I now see them as much smaller mistakes than before. Many of the biggest costs lie in the past, so the euro might be ...