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Investors are taking note of PepsiCo Inc. (NASDAQ: PEP) as the food and beverage leader trades below 16x earnings, one of its lowest valuations historically, and following a Q3 2026 earnings report with a number of highlights. Still, with the outlook for the near future looking less than optimistic, the company's real appeal may be to long-term investors who can settle in with a 4.67% dividend yield and wait for shares to capture some of the roughly 15% in upside potential Wall Street has assigned to the stock.

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, /CNW/ -- More small businesses will pay lower credit card processing fees when new Visa interchange rates take effect on October 24, says the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB). Small businesses pay interchange fees every time a customer pays by credit card. These fees go to the bank that issued the customer's card and are levied as a percentage of each sale.

Canada’s major banks and telecoms are launching a platform that allows them to share internal intelligence about fraudsters trying to steal money from consumers and institutions. The Cross-Sector Anti-Fraud Exchange, or CSAFE, will be operated by EnStream LP, an identity-verification company owned by Canada’s three largest wireless carriers. The initiative began with a pilot project between Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Rogers Communications Inc. Since then, several other big banks – Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Montreal, Bank of Nova Scotia and National Bank of Canada – as well as Desjardins have signed on. BCE Inc.’s Bell Canada and Telus Corp. are also participating.

Inside the Market’s roundup of some of today’s key analyst actionsTD Cowen analyst Mario Mendonca thinks “near-trough” valuations for Canadian property and casualty insurance companies present a “favourable setup” for investors as earnings season nears. “P&C stocks have underperformed banks and lifecos over the last twelve months, and now trade near trough multiples,” he said. “We expect continued top-line growth and limited drag from large commercial property softness to support P&C stocks from here. Longer term, we see potential catalysts in: 1) better-than-expected synergies (DFY-TRV Canada), 2) recovery in UK&I and potential M&A/NCIB (IFC), and 3) U.

Three water companies are seeking to impose severe restrictions on businesses as the drought continues across most of England, putting rivers and wildlife under huge pressure. Golf clubs and private schools could be barred from using mains water to irrigate playing fields and courses, and commercial car washes stopped from operating, under “non-essential use bans” being sought by the companies. Eleven areas of England are still in drought, rivers are suffering from low flows, groundwater levels are declining and reservoir levels are at 54% – 21% below what is expected in the autumn. Yorkshire was the latest area to move into drought status on 9 October. Parts of Wales are experiencing the first signs of drought recovery after the whole country was declared in drought in July. An illustration showing areas of England in droughtNineteen reservoirs or reservoir groups in England and Wales are less than 50% full, and eight are exceptionally low, up from five in August. The Met Office says above-average rainfall is needed over a sustained seven-month period to bring all areas out of drought.

I’m filling in for Chris Wilson-Smith in order to tell you about The Globe’s new digital tool for finding the data centres popping up around you. Is one going to be built in your neighbourhood? Up firstIn the newsReal estate: A founder-backed takeover bid for H&R REIT is facing growing opposition ahead of recommendations from key proxy advisory services that could kill the $3.4-billion acquisition. Defence: Dominion Dynamics is aiming to manufacture uncrewed ground vehicles for use in the war in Ukraine, becoming the latest Canadian company to help Volodymyr Zelensky move production away from the front lines.

The Resilient Entrepreneur: Ontario’s Small Business Conference will be held October 19 and 20 at 19 on the Park during Small Business Week. Economic Development Supervisor Cristina Liu says the conference is open to everyone from aspiring entrepreneurs with a business idea to established business owners looking to grow.

Thousands of Guelph readers voted. See which local restaurants, garages, shops and more made the 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards finalists list.

Community Futures Peterborough is celebrating two years of growth at its Business Advisory Centre, with more than 500 businesses receiving support and hundreds of thousands of dollars awarded in grants. Since launching in 2024, the centre has completed 1,047 in-depth consultations, supported 546 unique businesses and provided education to more than 1,700 businesses through free, in-person workshops.

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Open this photo in gallery:Canadian households in the top 20 per cent of earners saved about a third of their disposable income last year, while those in the bottom 60 per cent were spending beyond their incomes, according to a C. Fred Lum/The Globe and MailCanada’s national measures of household debt, already some of the highest among advanced economies, conceal growing financial pain among lower-income households, young people and highly indebted homeowners, according to new research. An analysis by Mawakina Bafale and Peter MacKenzie at the C. Howe Institute found that Canadians’ ability to save and repay debt is sharply divided across income and generational lines.

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