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Top Stories: U.S. tech stocks advanced on Wednesday which the industrial sector sagged. Big News Network.com Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:31:41 -0500Google has announced it will set a limit on the number of free news articles people can read if requested to do so by publishers. Big News Network.com Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:01:52 -0500Retail losses due to shoplifting in Japan have reached over 67 billion yen. Big News Network.com Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:53:46 -0500Ford Motors will formally unveil its new American versions of the new Fiesta subcompact next week. Big News Network.com Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:46:46 -0500Microsoft has explained a problem with its Windows operating system, dubbed the "Black Screen of Death," was caused by Malware. Big News Network.com Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:32:47 -0500The Finnish airline Finair had to scrap 35 flights on Tuesday. Big News Network.com Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:23:41 -0500India has blocked 25 million mobile phones in an attempt to tighten telecom security. Big News Network.com Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:20:20 -0500Public regulators in the UK have suggested the massive pension scheme deficit at British Telecom could lead to higher charges for business customers. Big News Network.com Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:16:05 -0500A lawyer from Fort Lauderdale, Florida has been arrested after accustations of fraud. Big News Network.com Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:10:10 -0500Moody's Investors Service in the US has confirmed it has dropped the ratings for the Las Vegas Sands Corp. Big News Network.com Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:20:46 -0500WASHINGTON - Irked by the Federal Reserve's bailout of Wall Street, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said Wednesday that he will seek to block the Senate from confirming Ben Bernanke to a second term a... Star Tribune Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:11:57 -0500WASHINGTON - Homebuyers insured by the Federal Housing Administration would have to provide more cash up front and meet higher credit scores under an Obama administration plan to protect the financia... Star Tribune Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:11:55 -0500Inaugural Microfinance Leadership Summit focuses on helping microfinance institutions reach more of the world's poor through technology. WASHINGTON and SEATTLE, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gra... RedOrbit Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:10:10 -0500ST. LOUIS, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- KV Pharmaceutical Company (NYSE: KVa/KVb) today announced that that it has entered into an employment agreement with Interim President and Chief Executive O... RedOrbit Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:10:07 -0500BOSTON -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has agreed to pay $40 million to 87,500 Massachusetts employees who claimed the retailer denied them rest and meals breaks, manipulated time cards and refused to pay ov... Miami Herald Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:06:05 -0500Retailers yesterday reported a drop of 25% to 30% in sales of Coca Cola versus normal times, namely when the bubbles in the popular soda don't smell of sulfur. When the crisis erupted about a week ago... Haaretz Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:01:55 -0500When news broke of Dubai World's economic crash, many feared that the emirate was heading for disaster. But among the high-rise hotels and high-end boutiques, there is much more optimism... Guardian Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:01:20 -0500Your article explaining how the global carbon market could be worth $3tn a year, but "enthusiasm to place it at the heart of the Copenhagen treaty is matched by growing criticism of the concept", eluc... Guardian Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:01:18 -0500Rupert Murdoch 's announcement that he's looking to put paywalls up around his newspaper properties online, you might think that they're the unicorns of the online world, spoken of but never glimpsed.... Guardian Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:01:15 -0500BOSTON - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has agreed to pay US$40 million to 87,500 Massachusetts employees who claimed the retailer denied them rest and meals breaks, manipulated time cards and refused to pay ov... Canadian Business Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:57:43 -0500By BARBARA ORTUTAYAP TECHNOLOGY WRITER NEW YORK -- Investors sent GameStop shares sharply lower Wednesday amid worries that the Wal-Mart's video game promotions could undercut holiday sales at Game... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:52:28 -0500In this photo made Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, the NBC logo and peacock are shown in New York. While regulators may not block Comcast Corp.'s plans to take control of NBC Universal altogether, they will a... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:52:28 -0500Bank of America Corp. said on Wednesday that it has worked out a deal with the government to repay US$45-billion in taxpayer bailout funds by raising new capital. Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:47:53 -0500NEW YORK -- Gold hit a record high above US$1,210 an ounce Wednesday, defying a stronger dollar as hedge funds and other institutional investors piled into bullion amid doubts about a nascent economic... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:47:50 -0500A four-day strike at Canadian National Railway Co. abruptly ended Wednesday after the country's largest railway reached an agreement with the union representing 1,700 of striking engineers that will s... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:47:42 -0500Following last week's sale of two prize sketches by Canadian artists Tom Thomson and Lawren Harris, for $2.8-million and $3.5-million, respectively, a collector exiting the Heffel Fine Art Auction Hou... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:47:40 -0500Bob Lutz speaks at the Los Angeles Auto Show, replacing Fritz Henderson, who resigned as president and chief executive officer of General Motors Tuesday. Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:47:36 -0500Talisman Energy Inc has cut 220 staff, or about 4% of its global workforce, as it speeds up a shift to unconventional gas plays in North America, Canada’s No. 3 independent oil explorer said on ... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:47:32 -0500Canadian stocks rose Wednesday, as commodity prices climbed, including gold, which hit another high. The S&P/TSX composite index advanced 72.41 points or 0.62% to 11779.73, while the TSX venture ... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:47:29 -0500WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers in the U.S. House voted Wednesday to give government regulators the power to break up financial firms that threaten economic stability, and to expose the Federal Reserve to unp... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:47:28 -0500Germany’s Daimler said Wednesday it will move roughly one-fifth of the production of its best-selling Mercedes-Benz Class C model to its lone U.S. facility in Alabama from Germany by 2014. Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:47:22 -0500OTTAWA -- The Canadian government set a new two-month deadline on Wednesday for the country's provinces to line up projects to be funded by stimulus cash, and committed to a firm schedule for winding ... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:47:21 -0500Canadian lumber shipments to China, set to climb after Shanghai adopted a building code for wood-frame construction amid a push to build new housing, will likely help Canada’s dollar strengthen beyo... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:46:54 -0500CALGARY -- Enbridge Inc. Canada's No. 2 pipeline firm, raised its dividend Wednesday and said it expects to boost earnings next year by around 12% as it completes new lines. The company, which has mo... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:46:50 -0500Eighty-eight Canadian clients of UBS AG have contacted the country's revenue agency to voluntarily disclose income they previously failed to report, Revenue Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn said ... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:46:44 -0500Canadian staffing firm Brainhunter Inc. said on Wednesday it has filed for creditor protection as it seeks to either restructure or sell its business. The company did not specify its liabilities, but... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:46:36 -0500Bank of Montreal, Canada's fourth-largest lender by assets, will probably boost its quarterly dividend when earnings increase, chief executive Bill Downe said. "The dividend will grow again, ther... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:46:30 -0500Gold surged to a record for a second day in London and New York as investors stepped up purchases to protect their wealth against a slumping dollar. Other precious metals climbed. Bullion has ris... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:46:21 -0500U.S. Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, right, shown here chatting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, has warned the E.U. not to stifle the City of London’s financial services... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:46:15 -0500Employers in the U.S. last month announced the fewest number of job cuts since the recession began two years as the economic recovery encouraged companies to retain workers. Planned firings fell ... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:46:11 -0500General Motors Corp.'s board of directors made the surprise announcement Tuesday it had accepted the resignation of Fritz Henderson as its chief executive, stating it was unhappy with the pace of the ... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:46:10 -0500Competition between Canada's three big cellphone providers during Christmases past has always been ferocious, but the spirit of the season this year is becoming downright ugly. Rogers Communications ... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:46:08 -0500"We will not go back to the world before this recession," Warren Jestin, chief economist with Scotia Capital, said while presenting his 2010-2011 economic outlook Tuesday morning. "Sticking with the .... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:46:05 -0500OTTAWA -- Cracks are beginning to emerge in one of the cornerstones of the free-market system, central bank independence - a fallout from the financial crisis analysts warned may occur. First in Japa... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:46:02 -0500OTTAWA/VANCOUVER -- The Canadian government's move to legislate an end to a strike by Canadian National Railway locomotive engineers got a boost Tuesday when a senior Liberal Party source said the opp... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:45:55 -0500Rogers Communications Inc. is asking a B.C. court for an injunction barring wireless rival BCE Inc. from claiming in its advertising that it has the "best" and "most powerful" cellphone network in the... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:45:47 -0500Back in February Ottawa announced plans to buy $12-billion of auto loans as a way to prop up beleaguered car makers. Nearly 10 months later, the so-called Canadian Secured Credit Facility has complet... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:45:46 -0500LONDON -- Barclays completed the sale of its asset management arm to U.S. fund manager BlackRock on Tuesday for US$15.2- billion, or US$1.7-billion more than when it struck the deal in June after a ju... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:45:42 -0500People gather outside a former local bank, where pirates were dividing ransom payment obtained for the Spanish ship Alakrana. In Somalia's main pirate lair of Haradheere, the sea gangs have set up a .... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:45:40 -0500Edward Sonshine, chief executive of RioCan REIT, which on Tuesday said it that its share of a deal to purchase four new format retail shopping centres in Western Canada is $166-million. Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:45:39 -0500Teck Resources Ltd., Canada's largest base-metals producer, said its partnership with China's sovereign wealth fund will win the company more coal, copper and zinc sales and provide financing for futu... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:45:36 -0500WASHINGTON -- Pending sales of previously owned U.S. homes rose unexpectedly to their highest level in 3-1/2 years in October, a survey showed on Tuesday, suggesting the housing market recovery was ga... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:45:33 -0500DUBAI -- Gulf markets dropped again on Tuesday, taking little comfort from Dubai World's plan to restructure about US$26-billion of debt, while the rulers of Abu Dhabi and Dubai talked up their econom... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:45:30 -0500Canwest Global Communications Corp. won an extension from its lenders on Tuesday, giving the media firm's main holding unit more time to re-capitalize under court protection. Canwest, which owns ... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:45:28 -0500Australia's Glenn Stevens will continue leading the world in raising interest rates, with economists predicting a record fourth straight increase at the central bank's next meeting in February. R... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:45:24 -0500OTTAWA -- The recession is finally over in Canada, but something strange happened to the Canadian economy on the road to recovery - it became more American. Data released Monday suggest Canada's GDP ... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:45:23 -0500Twitter has been an incredible tool for connecting with like-minded people from around the world. I am always on the lookout for women entrepreneurs and women in business to follow, connect with and l... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:45:10 -0500The federal government served notice it won't tolerate anything derailing Canada's economic recovery by swiftly introducing back-to-work legislation in the House Monday for 1,700 locomotive engineers ... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:45:08 -0500The Toronto Stock Exchange ended its best month since April with a slight loss on Monday, as new GDP figures showed Canada climbed out of recession in the third quarter – but just barely. With conc... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:45:03 -0500LLOYDS Banking Group yesterday put paid to lingering questions over whether HBOS could have remained independent, telling MSPs that it was "finished" as a separate entity ahead of its takeover last ye... The Scotsman Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:45:02 -0500Canada's television regulator has launched a website for the public to register their opinions ahead a round of hearings that could determine whether local TV stations can charge cable and satellite .... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:45:00 -0500TORONTO -- The head of Freewest Resources Canada Inc. has fired back at rival Noront Resources Ltd., saying that senior miner Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. is the company ready to develop its flagship... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:44:58 -0500A global regulator is denying a media report that it has drawn up a list of banks and insurance companies that it deems too big to fail. The Financial Times on Monday published a list of 30 instituti... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:44:52 -0500MONTREAL -- Newfoundland and Labrador has formally requested a new deal with Hydro-Quebec on the controversial 1969 Churchill Falls power contract in what could be the opening salvo of a new court cha... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:44:49 -0500NEW YORK -- Oil prices rose more than US$1 on Monday as the detainment of five Britons in Iran and a weak dollar outweighed concerns over debt-laden Dubai and its impact on the global economy. U.S. l... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:44:33 -0500Canada's largest homegrown advertising company, Cossette Inc., said on Monday that U.S. private-equity group Mill Road Capital LP has sweetened its all-cash takeover bid for the company. Cossette's b... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:44:28 -0500OTTAWA -- Gold could test US$1,300 and commodities will remain strongly bid in 2010 as the U.S. dollar continues to weaken, Scotiabank commodities specialist Patricia Mohr says. Strength in commoditi... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:44:27 -0500Prime Minister Stephen Harper, travelling to China for the first time this week, will seek to expand trade with the Asian country to reduce dependence on the slumping U.S. economy. Canada is the ... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:44:25 -0500TORONTO -- In Bay Street lore, in the not so distant past, investment bankers and traders picked up their end-of-year bonuses in the form of a fat check, with the keys to luxury cars on offer to top p... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:44:10 -0500Luxury retailers lost their traditional resilience during a financial crisis that hit the rich hard but offered attractive leverage to Wall Street's resurgence, the global recovery and increasingly we... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:44:07 -0500A one-bedroom condo in Waikiki for US$50,000 or less? Yes. You could buy a number of such condos here in the famous vacation destination for that price. With $5,000 down, the principal and interest on... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:44:05 -0500Microsoft's new street-level imagery in Bing Maps takes advantage of Silverlight to do things Web applications can't, according to the company. CNet Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:44:00 -0500The registered disability savings plan, first introduced in the March 2007 federal budget, can be used by parents as a key planning tool for the future, writes Family Man columnist Garry Marr. Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:44:00 -0500With barely a month to go before the end of the year, it is time to get your house in order. Herewith, your top 10 end-of-year tax tips: 1. Tax-loss selling This is the practice of selling i... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:43:44 -0500With interest rates so low and threatening to rise, more investment professionals are publicly warning the 30-year bull market for bonds may be over. The latest is Lisa Myers, co-manager of Templ... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:43:40 -0500MONTREAL -- Locmotive engineers at Canada's largest railway walked off the job Saturday, starting a strike that one shipping industry group says could have major repercussions on the national economy ... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:43:38 -0500OTTAWA -- The federal government must act to ensure proposed U.S. climate-change policy does not lead to "adverse affects," such as carbon tariffs, on Canadian industry, a Conference Board of Canada r... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:43:32 -0500OTTAWA -- Bailouts and subsidies to businesses by Canadian governments surpassed $200-billion between 1994 and 2007, adding up to $15,126 per taxpayer, according to a report Friday from the Fraser Ins... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:43:27 -0500The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the right of Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer, to shut down stores after workers unionized at one of its outlets in Jonquière, Que. In a 6-3 decision, Ju... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:43:20 -0500Canada's top benchmark exchange was relatively unchanged on Friday, as stocks south of the border tumbled playing catch-up with the rest of world following the U.S. Thanksgiving Day holiday. One day ... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:43:17 -0500Shoppers line up outside of a Best Buy store Thursday night as they wait for it to open on the shopping day dubbed "Black Friday" in Irving, Tex. Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:43:12 -0500TORONTO -- Striking workers at Vale's Voisey's Bay nickel mine in eastern Canada will not resume bargaining with the company unless Vale also agrees to sit down with striking workers at its Sudbury, O... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:43:10 -0500WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- A strike at Canada's biggest railway would interrupt a busy period for transporting grain across one of the world's top exporting countries, and could ring up costs to farmers an... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:43:07 -0500CHICAGO -- Privately held Canadian lumber producer Tolko Industries said this week it will close indefinitely its lumber unit in High Level, Alberta, due to poor market conditions. News of the pendin... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:43:02 -0500Investment bankers at RBC Capital Markets, TD Securities and other Canadian firms may see bonuses jump as much as 50% from last year after record stock sales and a surge in mergers fueled bank fees, a... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:42:59 -0500STOCKHOLM -- General Motors Co said on Friday it was talking to possible buyers of Saab, four days before a GM board meeting considers whether to attempt to revive a sale process or eliminate the 60-y... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:42:54 -0500TORONTO -- Canwest Global Communications Corp. said Friday it had a fourth quarter operating profit of $52-million before charges, compared with $60-million in the fourth quarter of 2008. For the ful... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:42:52 -0500OTTAWA -- The sentiments of average consumers and chartered accountants are headed in opposite directions, according to a pair of reports released Thursday. The mood of Canadian consumers deteriorate... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:42:48 -0500Rogers Communications Inc. beefed up its equity stake in rival Cogeco Inc. on Thursday in what some suggest is a clear sign to other would-be buyers that it intends to acquire the smaller cable TV com... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:42:45 -0500OTTAWA -- A major Nortel Networks Corp. creditor is objecting to terms of a key division sale, saying Nortel turned down a higher cash offer. Ciena Corp. won the auction this week for the metropolita... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:42:43 -0500Hopes that Bombardier Inc. might be able to stave off further production cuts in its regional-jet program fell flat Thursday with the Montreal transportation giant saying it would be forced to cut an ... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:42:35 -0500MONTREAL -- At some points in the game, the water looks real; clear at some angles to reveal the rocks below, at other angles, thick and murky. When your character hops into a helicopter, the exhaust ... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:42:33 -0500On Thursday, federal regulators approved a request to add Al Jazeera English to the list of satellite services eligible to be distributed in Canada. Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:42:29 -0500In its fiscal second-quarter budget update, the Alberta government said it expects a deficit of $4.3-billion for the current fiscal year, down from its first-quarter forecast for a $6.9-billion ... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:42:21 -0500NEW YORK -- One of News Corp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch's sons sold about US$27.6-million of his shares the media company this week as his investment company purchased a large stake in an Australi... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:42:18 -0500Web and video posts are feeding a new form of “silent attrition, where customers switch companies without complaining directly,” Frank Sherlock, senior vice-president at Cincinnati-based Convergys... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:42:15 -0500BEIJING -- China faces a protectionist backlash next year because its manufacturers are saddled with overcapacity and are offloading excess output into world markets, the European Union Chamber of Com... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:42:02 -0500Electric cars may be coming, but they will come much more slowly than you might expect from all the publicity. The price is one problem. It's the batteries. To get an e-car with more range, you need m... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:41:58 -0500CANBERRA -- Looking to work overseas? Head to Canada, Australia or Thailand, according to an annual global survey which found recession-hit Britain was one of the worst locations to live for expatriat... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:41:33 -0500NEW YORK/LONDON -- Gold prices hit record highs above US$1,190 an ounce Wednesday as the dollar fell sharply and the market expected central banks from emerging economies to keep buying bullion from t... Financial Post Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:41:30 -0500 |
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