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Cowboys' $6.6 million, draft pick investments land them 2 flop warnings from ESPNEvery move looks good in the offseason. Upside is kind when evaluating a team's trades, free agent signings and draft picks during the spring and summer. But despite the front office's rosy wording around each of their acquisitions, the reality is there's risk in every move and they land on the negative side of the ledger as often as they do on the positive.For the Dallas Cowboys, they might have more boom-or-bust nature to their offseason than most...

Open this photo in gallery:The loonie was trading 0.1 per cent lower at 1.3725 per U.S. dollar, or 72.86 U.S. cents, after trading in a range of 1.3702 to 1.3742.Mark Blinch/ReutersThe Canadian dollar CADUSD edged lower against its U.S. counterpart on Tuesday but was performing better than all the other Group of 10 currencies, as oil prices rose and investors awaited a Bank of Canada interest rate decision this week.The loonie was trading 0.1 per cent lower at 1.3725 per U.S. dollar, or 72.86 U.S. cents, after trading in a...

Open this photo in gallery:The loonie was trading 0.1 per cent lower at 1.3725 per U.S. dollar, or 72.86 U.S. cents, after trading in a range of 1.3702 to 1.3742.Mark Blinch/ReutersThe Canadian dollar CADUSD edged lower against its U.S. counterpart on Tuesday but was performing better than all the other Group of 10 currencies, as oil prices rose and investors awaited a Bank of Canada interest rate decision this week.The loonie was trading 0.1 per cent lower at 1.3725 per U.S. dollar, or 72.86 U.S. cents, after trading in a...

Open this photo in gallery:The loonie was trading 0.1 per cent lower at 1.3725 per U.S. dollar, or 72.86 U.S. cents, after trading in a range of 1.3702 to 1.3742.Mark Blinch/ReutersThe Canadian dollar edged lower against its U.S. counterpart on Tuesday but was performing better than all the other Group of 10 currencies, as oil prices rose and investors awaited a Bank of Canada interest rate decision this week.The loonie was trading 0.1 per cent lower at 1.3725 per U.S. dollar, or 72.86 U.S. cents, after trading in a range...

Open this photo in gallery:U.S. and Saudi flags flutter along a highway in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on May 12.Hamad I Mohammed/ReutersWhen U.S. President Donald Trump lands in Riyadh on Tuesday, he will be greeted with opulent ceremonies, gilded palaces and the prospect of $1-trillion in investments. But the raging war in Gaza has denied him one goal he has long craved: Saudi-Israel normalization.Behind the scenes, U.S. officials are quietly pressing Israel to agree to an immediate ceasefire in Gaza – one of Saudi Arabia’s preconditions for any restart of normalization...

Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman on Drayk Bowen's leadershipNotre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman praises the leadership qualites of third-year linebacker Drayk Bowen, the former Indiana Mr. Football at Andrean High School.SOUTH BEND — It hasn’t been that long since Josh Lugg and Tommy Kraemer completed their Notre Dame football careers as starting offensive linemen.Yet they are proving just as effective as budding entrepreneurs in real estate management.South Bend-based Golden Legacy Partners, with Lugg and Kraemer as co-founders, announced Wednesday the strategic acquisition of ESC Property Services, which serves...

Two thirds of Canadians back Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre getting a national security clearance, and nearly as many support Liberal Leader Mark Carney disclosing the scope and scale of his investments he recently put in a blind trust, according to a new national poll.The opinion survey on the personal choices of these two leaders, conducted last weekend for The Globe and Mail and CTV News by Nanos Research, found 66 per cent of respondents wanted or somewhat supported Mr. Poilievre joining the other federal party leaders in obtaining this status...

Open this photo in gallery:The 407 toll highwayFred Lum/The Globe and MailPublic Sector Pension Investment Board is making its largest-ever investment in Canada with a multibillion-dollar deal to acquire a piece of Ontario’s 407 ETR toll road.In a series of transactions announced Thursday morning, Montreal-based engineering giant AtkinsRéalis Group Inc. ATRL-T said it was divesting its 6.76-per-cent stake in the toll road for nearly $2.8-billion. Spanish construction giant Ferrovial will buy most of that stake – 5.06 per cent – for $2.1-billion and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board will acquire...