That's happening as Canadian household debt hit yet another record high, and now sits at $1.65 owed for every dollar of disposable income. Riskier borrowers mean riskier banks. Canadaâs big banks have been named the worldâs safest repeatedly in the years since the financial crisis of 2008, but that may be coming to an end. Bloomberg reports that Canadian banksâ leverage ratio â a measure of how well a bank can absorb a loss â is now worse than at banks in the U.S. or Europe.
Eiffel Tower tops list of Europeâs most expensive monuments with a price tag of Â£344 BILLION. 1  Structure which dates back to 1889 is six times more valuable than the Colosseum in Rome. 2  Most valuable British landmark is the Tower of London, deemed to be worth Â£56billion.
The Eiffel Tower is the most-visited paid monument in the world; 6.91 million people ascended it in 2015. The tower is 324 metres (1,063 ft) tall, about the same height as an 81-storey building, and the tallest structure in Paris. Its base is square, measuring 125 metres (410 ft) on each side. During its construction, the Eiffel Tower surpassed the Washington Monument to become the tallest man-made structure in the world, a title it held for 41 years until the Chrysler Building in New York City was finished in 1930.