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Top Stories: A federal jury in Texas has ordered BP to pay $100 million to ten workers. Big News Network.com Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:07:35 -0500World airline passenger numbers have been down in 2009. Big News Network.com Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:05:18 -0500Germany’s luxury sports car maker Porsche has had poor turnover this year. Big News Network.com Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:02:57 -0500Japan's Honda Motors has said its plans to build a fifth car plant in China are well underway. Big News Network.com Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:01:08 -0500Wal-Mart Stores has named the head of its Walmart de Mexico business as president and CEO of all Walmart Latin American regional operations. Big News Network.com Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:59:11 -0500The Watford Football Club in the UK has avoided the threat of administration. Big News Network.com Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:57:15 -0500The Swiss watch maker Tag Heuer has decided to abandon Tiger Woods as an advertising figure. Big News Network.com Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:53:49 -0500It is unlikely anyone will know exactly which investments to take in 2010, with most not knowing how well their investments have performed until 2011. Big News Network.com Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:51:47 -0500BAGHDAD - Iraq has initialed a deal with a consortium led by European giant Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Malaysia's state-run Petronas to develop one of Iraq's most prized oil fields. Iraqi officials i... Star Tribune Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:06:39 -0500It's the busiest time of the year for Moya Greene, chief executive of Canada Post Corp. As Christmas draws near, her employees are sorting through more than 60 million pieces of mail, parcels and mes... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:38:31 -0500Michael Nobrega, president and chief executive of Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS), says his pension plan has weathered the economic crisis. The bounce in equity markets and the s... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:38:24 -0500Holiday spending is rising again thanks to the end of the recession, but are we really getting our money's worth? A new study by the Bank of Nova Scotia says Canadians will spend $891 this holida... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:38:23 -0500There's a simple way to give, then there's the 'leveraged' donation tax shelter -- a scheme that can get you in trouble with the tax man, Jamie Golombek writes. Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:38:22 -0500OTTAWA - The federal government is ready to clamp down further on mortgage rules if the boom in the Canadian housing market turns into a bubble, says Finance Minister Jim Mr. Flaherty. In an exclusiv... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:38:19 -0500TORONTO -- Cossette Inc. will revert to a private company after a shareholder vote on Friday approving a takeover of the Quebec ad agency by Mill Road Capital L.P. After a takeover battle which was i... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:38:18 -0500Another subdued week for Canadian stocks ended on a slight sour note Friday, despite big gains from Research in Motion Ltd. After early gains vanished in late day trading, the S&P/TSX composite i... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:38:16 -0500Doug Silver felt he had to do something. In the mining royalty business, his company International Royalty Corp. (IRC) is much smaller than competitors Royal Gold Inc. and Franco-Nevada Corp., and th... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:38:11 -0500General Motors will wind down operations at its loss-making Swedish unit Saab after an attempt to sell it to small Dutch luxury carmaker Spyker Cars failed. Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:38:09 -0500Want to find a great long-term investment? Look for an annual report that treats you like a human being. Most don't. The standard-issue annual report features heroic photos of the CEO, staged snapsho... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:38:07 -0500The Ontario Securities Commission said Friday it will hold hearings next week to consider settlements with CIBC and CIBC World Markets and HSBC Bank Canada over their role in the sale of third-party .... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:38:06 -0500OTTAWA -- Canada's federal budget deficit grew by $3.3-billion in October, an improvement of sorts after four consecutive months of running shortfalls of at least $5-billion, data from the Department ... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:38:04 -0500The regulator for the telecommunications industry is once more weighing whether to permit a new cellphone firm to launch services or not. This time, Public Mobile Inc. has been called in front of... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:38:03 -0500WASHINGTON -- Major U.S. airlines have mounted a legal challenge to European Union regulations that would cap allowable jetliner emissions and force carriers to pay up for exceeding limits. The Air T... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:38:01 -0500NEW YORK -- Oil rose above US$73 a barrel Friday, after an incursion by Iranian troops into an Iraqi oilfield signalled tensions between two major crude exporters, while a firming dollar showed invest... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:38:00 -0500Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, recipient of the world's biggest banking bailout, is contributing 10-pounds (US$16) a head toward employee Christmas parties this year, enough to buy two pints of lag... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:37:57 -0500Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown. Britain's public sector net borrowing hit its highest ever monthly level in November, taking total outstanding net debt to a record 60.2% of economic... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:37:56 -0500OTTAWA -- The value of Canada's wholesale trade rose less than expected in October, as declines in the food and beverages sector countered gains by auto-related sales. Sales edged up 0.3% to $41.... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:37:55 -0500George Cope, chief executive, said on a conference call BCE will raise its dividend for the second time since August, this time by a better-than-expected 7% to $1.74 a share next year. Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:37:54 -0500A new natural-gas shale play, akin to the Horn River gas field in northwestern British Columbia, is emerging in Alberta, and explorers made a multi-million gamble on the zone earlier this week. Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:37:52 -0500The U.K banking watchdog has hit Toronto-Dominion Bank with a $12-million fine, one of its largest ever, for repeated systems failures around to the pricing of credit derivatives. This is the second ... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:37:49 -0500LONDON -- The euro clawed back some of its recent steep losses against the dollar and yen on Friday and rose off nine-month lows versus the Swiss franc while higher oil prices pushed European stocks h... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:37:47 -0500Pat Daniel, Enbridge’s chief executive, said the company will spend between $1.5-billion and $2-billion on renewable power projects over the period. Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:37:44 -0500Canadian stocks were hit hard on Thursday, as investors fled from commodities like oil and gold in favour of the rallying greenback. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 163.98 points, or 1.4%, t... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:37:43 -0500LONDON -- British Airways Plc won a court ruling on Thursday to prevent a 12-day cabin crew strike that threatened to strand hundreds of thousands of passengers over Christmas. BA cabin crew had said... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:37:40 -0500Transat A.T. turned in a much stronger-than-expected earnings Thursday as the country's largest travel tour operator delivered on its promise to manage its costs and scale back its capacity to help fi... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:37:38 -0500OTTAWA -- Canada's annual rate of inflation rose for a second straight month in November, led by higher gasoline prices. Statistics Canada said Thursday its consumer price index rose to 1% during... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:37:35 -0500Greg Wilkins, the former chief executive of Barrick Gold Corp. and a leader in Canadian business, passed away on Wednesday after a battle with cancer. He was 53. Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:37:32 -0500Thousands of BlackBerry users across North and South America were left in the dark Thursday as the company reported a widespread email outage. Corporate customers should not have any interruption in .... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:37:30 -0500The statistics may not show it yet but real estate company CB Richard Ellis says there are signs the leasing market may be improving. "An increase in leasing activity and improved access to capit... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:37:26 -0500NEW YORK/CHARLOTTE, North Carolina -- Bank of America Corp on Wednesday tapped insider Brian Moynihan as its next chief executive, ending months of speculation about who would succeed Kenneth Lewis to... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:37:24 -0500Scottish low-cost carrier Flyglobespan has collapsed after its parent company suffered liquidity issues, the company said on its website. The Globspan Group and Alba Ground Handling Ltd entered i... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:37:18 -0500CHICAGO -- Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc raised its profit outlook for 2009 and said earnings should rise in a high single-digit percentage rate in 2010 as it works on drawing consumers to its drinks. ... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:37:14 -0500Ontario's Crown corporations could turn into the crown jewels for Canadian pension plans, with two of the largest signalling Wednesday that they would be interested in any move toward privatization of... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:37:11 -0500As the struggle for supremacy in the burgeoning market for e-book readers intensifies, it's shaping up to be a battle between the Kindle and the rest of the world. Although Amazon.com Inc. recently r... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:37:07 -0500In a forecast for the law firm Bennett Jones LLP, where he is a senior advisor, David Dodge wrote that the Canadian economy should grow at an annualized 3-1/2% in the first half of 2010. Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:37:05 -0500LONDON -- Britain's Financial Services Authority fined Canada's Toronto Dominion Bank 7-million pounds (US$11.45-million), the regulator's fourth-biggest penalty ever, for failing to scrutinize the pr... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:37:03 -0500TORONTO -- Startup cellphone carrier WIND Mobile says it will sell handsets at cost while offering customers pricing plans for "unlimited" voice and data services for far less money than its rival inc... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:37:00 -0500OTTAWA -- Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney Wednesday asked the country's financial institutions to uphold their global reputation as sterling risk managers and exercise caution in their lending to ... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:59 -0500Canada's top benchmark exchange gained for the second time this week, as energy stocks soared on better-than-expected data for oil and gas stockpiles south of the border and miners benefited from anot... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:53 -0500Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said the vacancy rate across the country’s 35 biggest urban centres was 2.8% as of October this year, up from 2.2% a year earlier. Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:51 -0500Lehman, the investment bank liquidating in bankruptcy, asked U.S. Bankruptcy Judge James Peck in New York last month for permission to pay the bonuses to about 230 full-time employees unwinding the ..... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:49 -0500The Bank of Nova Scotia is said to be among the bidders for a stake in one of Thailand's biggest banks. Thailand's central bank is seeking about US$1-billion for a 47.6% stake in Siam City Bank PLC, ... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:47 -0500ATHENS/LONDON -- Greece suffered the second downgrade of its credit rating in a week on Wednesday, hours after its finance minister revealed plans to resume borrowing from bond markets early next year... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:45 -0500WASHINGTON -- New home construction rose less than expected last month, while consumer prices increased marginally, suggesting little urgency for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates sooner as ... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:43 -0500LONDON -- Global equities edged higher on Wednesday, led by banks after a report that global banking regulators are eyeing delaying the implementation of new capital rules, while gold and crude prices... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:42 -0500OTTAWA -- Factory sales rose more than expected in October, lifted by aerospace and petroleum and coal products, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday. Sales were up 2% during the month to $42.5-b... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:41 -0500What a difference a year makes. Last November, the economy was said to be on the verge of the next Great Depression, sucking the life out of a housing market that was coming off a record year in 2007.... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:39 -0500OTTAWA -- Fewer Canadians planned and saved for retirement in 2009 as economic uncertainty shifted financial priorities in some Canadian households, according to the RBC's annual RRSP poll released We... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:38 -0500"I'm confident in the opportunity that our company has in the coming quarters and years ahead in creating sustainable value," Darren Entwistle, the chief executive of Telus Corp., said. Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:36 -0500The recovery in existing sales so far has had a narrow direct effect on the wider economy but as the market begins to recover it can lead to stronger prices and convince builders to begin construction... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:34 -0500General Motors Corp. will move much quicker than originally planned to repay loans it received from the governments of the United States, Canada and Ontario during its bankruptcy restructuring, saying... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:31 -0500TORONTO -- Flow-through shares are an excellent way for Canadian investors who capitalized on the market rebound this year to save on tax bills. But they will have to hurry because time has almost run... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:28 -0500The McKenzie Delta, location of the delayed Mackenzie natural gas pipeline. After decades of setbacks, work on the pipeline has not started, and it's not entirely clear it ever will. Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:27 -0500Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner took off on its maiden flight today, more than two years late, starting a testing process that will last at least nine months before the new plane enters service. The ... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:26 -0500A slow day on Canada's top benchmark exchange saw stocks almost unchanged, as rising oil prices after nine consecutive days of losses was cancelled out by a drop in gold. "The rise in oil was better ... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:24 -0500Toyota's first plug-in model, the Prius Plug-In Hybrid (PHV), adds an external charging function and more batteries to the popular Prius to enable longer-distance driving on electricity alone. Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:23 -0500The number of bankruptcies filed by consumers and businesses dropped 27.7% to 9,245 in October from the previous month, and were down 2.4% from a year ago. Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:21 -0500Transition Therapeutics Inc. fell the most since 2002 after the company and partner Elan Corp. said nine people died in a mid-stage clinical trial of a drug being developed to treat Alzheimer's diseas... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:20 -0500MONTREAL -- Severe cost-cutting and the start of new contracts allowed Transcontinental Inc. to post stronger-than-expected earnings in the fourth quarter, but the recession has left Canada's largest ... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:19 -0500General Motors Co., the automaker that restructured in a 40-day bankruptcy, plans to repay government loans by the end of June, chief executive Ed Whitacre said. Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:16 -0500DETROIT -- Ed Whitacre, General Motors Co. chairman and acting chief executive, said on Tuesday that luxury car maker Spyker Car NV is the only remaining party with which GM is negotiating for the sal... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:14 -0500Microsoft said it was temporarily suspending its MSN China microblogging site, Juku, as it investigates a complaint of plagiarism from a start-up, Plurk. Microsoft is working with the MSN China joint... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:08 -0500TORONTO -- Canada's investment dealer community said on Tuesday it picked a TMX Group Inc unit to develop a central counterparty service for the fixed-income market, a move that could reduce risks and... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:06 -0500KUWAIT -- Gulf Arab countries endorsed a monetary union agreement on Tuesday despite the absence of major player the United Arab Emirates and fellow oil producer Oman and left options open for pegging... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:06 -0500Nationally, the number of new job postings -- an indicator of future hiring intentions -- improved between October and November, up 4.2% or 7,500 more job postings. Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:03 -0500TORONTO -- Canadian mining companies face increasing risks in their ability to cope with climate change, a new report says. "For many years, mining companies considered climate change a purely enviro... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:35:59 -0500WASHINGTON -- U.S. producer prices rose more than expected in November, lifted by a surge in energy costs, and recorded the first year-on-year gain since last November, according to a government repor... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:35:58 -0500CALGARY -- Exxon Mobil Corp. unveiled a monster of a natural-gas acquisition Monday, marking a sharp return to North America and reminding unconventional-gas investors that the world's largest energy ... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:35:54 -0500The Minister responsible for the Canada Revenue Agency is vowing to broaden an investigation of a leading investment firm involved in alleged tax evasion to include all the Canadian banks. "This is n... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:35:51 -0500Spare a moment this holiday season to pity "fat-cat bankers." After pinning the disparaging label on Wall Street in a weekend interview, Barack Obama, the U.S. President, devoted part of Monday to le... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:35:48 -0500LONDON -- The euro hit a 2-1/2 month low against a broadly firmer dollar on Tuesday while world stocks slipped as concerns grew about the European banking sector and the fiscal health of Greece. ... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:35:43 -0500NEW YORK -- Shares in Wells Fargo & Co rose 3.7% to US$26.43 in premarket trade on Tuesday after the fourth largest U.S. bank said late the previous day it would repay government bailout funds. ... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:35:41 -0500CHICAGO -- Tiger Woods has just made life a whole lot tougher for athletes looking to score big deals to pitch a company's products or services. The lurid, unrelenting media coverage of the world No.... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:35:37 -0500Monday, Globalive Wireless Management Corp. announced it has partnered with Blockbuster Canada and will use the retail chain’s stores to sell services. Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:35:29 -0500Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney (l) and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty at a meeting of G7 Finance Ministers in February. RBC says the pace of Canada's recovery will lead G7 nations. Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:35:28 -0500Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou pledged "radical" action to bring the country's budget deficit within European Union limits by 2013 as the two-month old government struggles to convince investo... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:35:21 -0500The judge’s findings pave way for investors to sue a number of IMAX officers and directors over disclosures relating to the company’s 2005 financial statements. Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:35:19 -0500NEW YORK -- Exxon Mobil Corp will buy XTO Energy Inc in an all-stock transaction valued at about US$30-billion, in a bid that thrusts the oil giant to the forefront of North America's fast-growing nat... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:35:15 -0500The Bank of Montreal is attempting to shift blame from its own employees to Optionable Inc. for record commodity-trading losses incurred in 2007, Kevin Cassidy, Optionable's former chief executive, sa... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:35:11 -0500U.S. mining giant Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. is poised to win the takeover battle for Freewest Resources Canada Inc. after rival Noront Resources Ltd. threw in the towel. That sets the stage f... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:35:05 -0500Nakheel company flags with Burj Arab in the background in Dubai. Abu Dhabi is helping fellow United Arab Emirates member Dubai with a US$10-billion lifeline. Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:35:04 -0500LONDON -- Britain's Cadbury PLC said it has received interest from other bidders after raising its growth targets and reporting upbeat trading as it dismissed a 10-billion pound (US$16.5-billion) bid ... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:34:58 -0500TMX Group Inc., owner of the Toronto Stock Exchange, said Monday it has reached an agreement to distribute data to NYSE Euronext, extending Canadian market information availability in the United ... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:34:51 -0500TORONTO -- Globalive Communications Corp., fresh from getting the go-ahead from Ottawa to launch its new wireless service in Canada, said Monday it has struck a deal for real estate space inside 16 Bl... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:34:46 -0500OTTAWA -- Canadian industrial facilities were operating at a lower capacity in the third quarter than the previous three-month period, Statistics Canada reported Monday, but the output was still bette... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:34:43 -0500The Syncrude oil sands extraction facility near the town of Fort McMurray in Alberta. The province expects its greenhouse gas emissions to continue to rise until 2020. Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:34:40 -0500Since truly safe savings vehicles like Canada Savings Bonds, bank savings accounts and GICs pay next to nothing, investors need to get creative in finding alternatives that pay more interest, or its e... Financial Post Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:34:39 -0500Charities say they are losing more than £700m a year because people are giving cash anonymously, rather than going online or using direct debits where donations might qualify for a tax break. Ni... BBC Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:09:16 -0500SEOUL, South Korea - Hyundai Motor Co. said Sunday it has agreed to launch a $400 million truck manufacturing venture in China with a local partner as it seeks further inroads in the world's biggest ... Star Tribune Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:22:29 -0500BURLINGTON, MA, December 20, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- StarWind Software, a global leader in storage virtualization and a pioneer in iSCSI storage, today announced full SAN compatibility and support ... 24 / 7 Press Release Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:59:30 -0500 |
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