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Bombardier’s financial fortunes are slipping, but some investors are up for the risk.

Published: 18 December 2015

While high risk, airplane maker’s preferred shares could offer high reward. Bombardier Inc. is teetering on the edge of a financial precipice.
... Bombardier employs about 17,000 people in Quebec, according to figures from Karl Moore, a professor at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. Add in people employed at companies that supply Bombardier, and about 40,000 jobs depend upon Bombardier in Canada. If these jobs are lost, the cost of employment insurance benefits and other social assistance programs may end up being greater than the investments being made by governments.

Read full article: The Globe and Mail, December 15, 2015

 

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