D. 1987. The Nikkei’s crash was part of a wave of selling on stock markets around the world. As the week progressed, the Nikkei recovered some of its losses.

b. Apple shares. Buffett announced that he sold just over 49 percent of his Apple shares in the second quarter. The sale helped push cash at his flagship Berkshire Hathaway to $277 billion, the highest level ever. It seems that Buffett is not exactly optimistic about the future of the stock market.

A. Better than expected sales and profits in the second quarter. Shopify beat expectations and gave an optimistic forecast for the future. The good news was a welcome contrast to the sentiment in May, when the company’s share price slumped nearly 20 percent on concerns that operating costs were rising too quickly for investors’ liking.

C The opportunity to buy a small portion of an expensive stock. Fractional trading allows investors to purchase a small portion of a stock that can then be sold for hundreds or thousands of dollars.

b. pension funds. According to the Financial Times, Ms Reeves met with the heads of major Canadian pension funds. She advocates consolidating Britain’s numerous municipal pension schemes and turning them into something similar to the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan or the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Quebec.

A. Maintaining an illegal monopoly over online search. Judge Amit Mehta called Google a “monopolist,” saying the company uses its dominance in online search to stifle competition and maintain artificially high prices for online advertising. Among other things, Google pays billions of dollars each year to Apple and other handset makers to ensure it is the default search engine on new phones and other devices.

b. Pringle potato chips. Consider the synergies in the junk food space. According to the Financial Times and Reuters, privately held Mars plans to acquire Kellanova, a line of snack and food brands spun off from Kellogg less than a year ago. Kellanova’s products include Pringles, Pop Tarts and Cheez-It. Mars already owns Altoids, Wrigley’s gum and Skittles. Would a combination of all these brands be nutritious? Maybe not, but profitable, yes.

C About $2,200 a month. According to data from Rentals.ca and Urbanation, the average rent asking price nationwide in July was $2,201 per month, a sharp increase of 5.9 percent from the previous year. The good news is that July’s rate of increase was the lowest since 2022. Rent increases had previously been nearly 10 percent per year.

D. It was an increase of 25 percent. Ottawa’s rhetoric appears to be way ahead of reality. In the first quarter of the year, employers received approval to hire 28,730 people through the TFW program’s low-wage program, up 25 percent from the previous year and the highest quarterly figure for such approvals in government records since 2016.

A. Stop trying to limit the amount of compensation a passenger can claim in the event of a flight disruption. The Air Passenger Rights Group claims that policies posted online by WestJet may mislead customers about their ability to get money back if a flight is canceled or delayed. The lawsuit alleges that the airline’s refund limits violate both federal and international regulations.

C The company abandoned its plan to spin off its coal assets. Glencore has scrapped plans to spin off its coal division. When Glencore acquired Teck Resources’ coal division last year, the company said it would merge the Canadian miner’s assets with its existing coal division and then roll the combined coal operations into a new company. Shareholders were cool to the idea, underscoring the tension companies face as they try to reduce emissions while generating high profits.