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Top Stories: Fears over Dubai's debt situation and how it may affect the global economic recovery are no doubt overblown. Big News Network.com Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:41:16 -0500UK pensioner associations have asked policy makers to implement measures to reduce deficits pension liabilities on company balance sheets. Big News Network.com Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:04:14 -0500New Zealand has posted its lowest annual goods trade deficit for nearly seven years. Big News Network.com Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:52:59 -0500Sony is attempting to pick up customers with new 3D technology after falling behind in flat-panel TV technology. Big News Network.com Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:47:33 -0500Canadian industries have been looking after their workers with higher pay. Big News Network.com Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:40:46 -0500Worries over Dubai's debt problems drove down Asian and European share markets prior to the weekend. Big News Network.com Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:01:22 -0500New York, Aug 28 (DPA) US stocks slumped during a shortened trading day Friday amid a debt crisis in Dubai that sparked similar sell-offs in other world markets. IANS Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:30:04 -0500The BBC has reported that the UK company owned by the ex-bosses of MG Rover has paid back some of the millions of pounds taken out of the car maker. Big News Network.com Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:24:20 -0500UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he will press Commonwealth leaders this weekend to support his plan to make banks pay for any future bailout. Big News Network.com Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:14:58 -0500The Japanese yen touched 84 to the US dollar before the weekend, the US currency's lowest level since the mid-1990's. Big News Network.com Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:08:07 -0500VALLEY STREAM, N.Y. - Crowd control at all Walmart stores in New York appeared to be smooth Friday, a year after a security guard was crushed to death by a stampede of shoppers. Nassau County Distri... Star Tribune Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:21:45 -0500TASIILAQ, Greenland - Gert Ignatiussen returns to this fjord-front Inuit town with the spoils of his hunting trip. Six seals, all killed with a single shot to the head. With nimble handwork, his wif... Star Tribune Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:21:43 -0500DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - For years, Dubai seemed unstoppable, an oasis of excess boasting indoor ski slopes and manmade islands, the world's tallest tower and dreams that reached even higher.Now... Star Tribune Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:21:41 -0500Microsoft released data collected from an FTP-server honeypot, showing that attempts to guess passwords continue to focus on the low-hanging fruit: passwords with an average length of eight characters... Security Focus Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:20:27 -0500Almost a year ago, Woolworths went into administration. The stores may have long since disappeared from our high streets, but what happened to the staff?... Guardian Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:11:28 -0500It will take more than bad debt to stop the partying in Dubai, as Collette Lyons found out when she took a job on a magazine in the hedonists' paradise... Guardian Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:11:22 -0500Analysts cautioned on Nov. 25 not to read too much into the coming departure of Microsoft Corp. finance chief Chris Liddell, which was announced the previous day. Liddell joined Microsoft in 2005... Business Week Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:57:45 -0500While Black Friday, by every early indication, had done everything asked of it -- and more, it seemed, than pessimists had expected of it -- it failed to wrest Wall Street's post-holiday spotlight fr... Fox Business Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:50:08 -0500NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dubai, jobs data, Black Friday results and a chance for Congress to throw fireballs at Fed chief Ben Bernanke: The U.S. stock market's path to glory is fraught with peril next wee... Reuters Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:49:33 -0500Five of the big six energy suppliers are still overcharging customers who use pre-pay meters, despite new rules from Ofgem, it has been claimed.The National Housing Federation (NHF)said the energy wat... BBC Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:20:23 -0500There is a lack of consistency in the way insurance companies treat flood victims who are looking to make claims, the National Flood Forum has said. The charity says the problem of people living on th... BBC Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:20:22 -0500NEW YORK - The holidays may be starting to crowd your to-do list, but one thing you shouldn't let get buried under the tinsel is your health insurance coverage. Open enrollment period, the annual wi... Star Tribune Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:54:37 -0500TORONTO - The Supreme Court of Canada said Friday that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. was entitled to close a store in Quebec in 2005, seven months after workers voted to become the first Walmart store in North... MSNBC Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:50:21 -0500City of Industry, CA --(www.FinancialNewsUSA.com)-- 11/27/2009 - US Market industry news provided by Financial News USA. Windstream Corp. says it is moving its share listing to the Nasdaq stock market... Financial News USA Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:45:00 -0500MONTREAL - Wal-Mart Canada says it's not surprised the highest court in the country has ruled the multinational was entitled to close a unionized store in Quebec in 2005. But the union which repr... C News Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:33:33 -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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:26:20 -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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:26:16 -0500Mr. Flaherty, speaking to reporters, said the Canadian banking regulator sees little or no impact in Canada from Dubai’s request for a standstill on payments of tens of billions of dollars of debt .... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:26:12 -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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:26:10 -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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:26:09 -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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:26:07 -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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:26:06 -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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:26:05 -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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:26:03 -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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:26:02 -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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:26:01 -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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:26:00 -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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:58 -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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:57 -0500Jazz Air Income Fund is in discussion with Canadian travel tour veteran Robbie Goldberg about potentially partnering with him on his latest venture, Direct Save Holidays, a new competitor in the packa... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:52 -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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:51 -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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:50 -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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:48 -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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:45 -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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:44 -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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:42 -0500Bidding wars and higher interest costs have lead to the inevitable - a drop in housing affordability for the first time in five quarters, according to a new index produced by the Royal Bank of Canada.... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:40 -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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:37 -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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:36 -0500Given the recent economic turmoil caused by the rising loonie, it's hardly surprising that Canadians have a love-hate relationship with their currency. But now the dollar has a new, somewhat uncomfort... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:34 -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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:31 -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 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:30 -0500OTTAWA -- Don't look now, but Canadian governments are returning in increasing fashion to foreign markets to help finance their day-to-day operations - something they last did with great regularity in... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:28 -0500Onex Corp said Wednesday it had sold another part of its interest in Emergency Medical Services Corp in a secondary offering, for proceeds of about US$151-million. The Canadian private-equity firm sai... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:26 -0500Canadian home resale prices rose for a fifth straight month in September on gains in five of six major metropolitan markets surveyed, according to a report on Wednesday. Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:25 -0500NEW YORK -- AIG and former chief executive Maurice "Hank" Greenberg have reached an agreement to bury a long-standing, bitter legal battle and the insurer will turn over materials the former boss can ... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:24 -0500Canadian National, the country’s biggest railway, said it is urging the Teamsters union, which represents the engineers, to resume negotiations immediately. Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:22 -0500CHICAGO -- Wall Street's main barometer of investor sentiment did not show much fear on Wednesday, as it sank to its lowest level in 15 months. The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, kn... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:21 -0500Dan Fortin, part 2 FP Executive's John Turley-Ewart speaks with Dan Fortin, President IBM Canada, about what differentiates Canadian managers. Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:19 -0500General Motors Co. confirmed Wednesday it will build the Buick Regal sedan at its Oshawa, Ont. assembly plant just east of Toronto, one of five vehicles the automaker commited to producing in Canada u... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:18 -0500OTTAWA -- Earnings by Canadian companies rose in the third quarter of 2009 after three straight quarterly declines, Statistics Canada said Wednesday. Operating profits were up 7.9% to $54.1-billion d... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:15 -0500WASHINGTON -- The number of U.S. workers filing new applications for jobless insurance tumbled last week to the lowest level in more than a year and consumer spending rose, adding to evidence the worl... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:14 -0500The board of Cossette Inc. urged its shareholders Wednesday to reject an amended offer from Cosmos Capital Inc. made last week in favour of an identical deal from a U.S. firm, as a tug-of-war over the... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:12 -0500LONDON -- Britain's economy shrank for a sixth consecutive quarter in the three months to September but at a slower pace than previously reported, keeping alive expectations of a return to growth befo... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:03 -0500STOCKHOLM -- General Motors appears to still hope to sell its Swedish Saab Automobile unit despite a deal collapsing, a Swedish government official said on Wednesday. "I talked to GM last night and m... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:25:00 -0500UBS AG plans to hire more than a dozen sales and trading staff to bolster its equities business in Canada over the next two years after receiving a record number of job requests from employees at riva... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:58 -0500A surge in office construction in Toronto's downtown may push the city's vacancy rate higher than New York and Boston after developers added space during the first recession in 17 years. The prop... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:56 -0500OTTAWA -- Saskatchewan will surpass Ontario this year as Canada's second-wealthiest province as measured by living standards, the result of a recession that has shown no mercy on the country's industr... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:53 -0500TORONTO -- A potential labour disruption could be looming at Canadian National Railway Co. after the country's largest railway decided to unilaterally impose contract changes on 1,700 of its engineers... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:49 -0500The Toronto Stock Exchange, along with most other market benchmarks around the globe, lost ground Tuesday in the face of evidence the U.S. economic recovery hasn’t been going as smoothly as once ... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:47 -0500Platinum and palladium miners in North America form an exclusive club, to say the least. Right now, there is exactly one pure-play producer of the two metals operating in North America: Stillwater Mi... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:45 -0500MONTREAL -- Despite posting losses in net earnings and revenues because of lower fuel margins in the United States and a weaker Canadian dollar, Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., North America's largest ... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:43 -0500In court documents, a judge said: "The technological advantage that allowed Rogers to represent that it has Canada's most reliable network has disappeared."... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:41 -0500TORONTO - Telus Corp. brought a fresh idea to an old and contentious debate Tuesday that the telecommunications giant says will open up tens of millions of dollars to assist Canada's ailing broadcast ... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:38 -0500TORONTO -- Canadian officials have approved a landmark search advertising deal between Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc., but the deal still faces potential antitrust hurdles in both the United States an... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:37 -0500NEW YORK -- Microsoft Corp's Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell is to leave the company at the end of the year, indicating that he is looking for a bigger job at another company. Mr. Liddell, 51, ... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:35 -0500A picture taken on November 8, 2009, in Paris shows an image from the "Facebook" page of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, called "Memories of the fall of the Berlin wall, on November 9, 1989." The ..... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:33 -0500Torstar Corp.'s Toronto Star, Canada's biggest newspaper, which plans to cut 78 editing jobs, or about a fifth of its editorial staff, to reduce expenses by $4-million annually, will contract out the ... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:30 -0500Federal Reserve officials are increasingly confident in a durable recovery for the U.S. economy, even though they do not see employment picking up soon, according to minutes from their November ... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:28 -0500The Sri Lankan-born billionaire is the most prominent of 20 people who face criminal or civil charges in the largest U.S. hedge fund insider trading case on record and Wall Street’s first insider ..... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:24 -0500STOCKHOLM -- Sweden effectively ruled out a state bailout of GM's loss-making Saab unit on Tuesday after tiny luxury car firm Koenigsegg pulled out of a bid for one of the Nordic country's best-known ... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:23 -0500OTTAWA -- The robust retail data for September suggest domestic consumption was strong enough to help Canada post positive growth for the third quarter and, technically, pull the country out of a rece... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:21 -0500Apartments on Isabella Street in Toronto, Ont. Apartment buildings generally held their value through the recession. Brett Gundlock/National Post Ugo Bizzarri's Timbercreek Asset Management Inc. ... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:19 -0500SHANGHAI/HONG KONG -- Chinese banks, under government pressure to shore up their finances, are set to unleash a wave of billions of dollars in capital raising that could strain equity markets but also... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:17 -0500DUBLIN -- Irish teachers shut schools, nurses left wards and civil servants abandoned offices on Tuesday in a protest against government plans to cut pay and prevent the national debt from spiralling ... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:14 -0500MOSCOW -- Russia's central bank on Tuesday unveiled a widely-expected interest rate cut, its ninth since April, in a bid to slow down the appreciation of the rouble and support the economy's still fra... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:13 -0500Investors have already endured a stock market bubble. Now they're in the middle of a bond market bubble. So many have stampeded to the supposed safety of bonds - especially government bonds - they ha... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:11 -0500In move to establish an investment management beach head in the fast growing Chinese market, Manulife Financial Corp. said it plans to acquire a 49% stake in a Chinese wealth management company, broad... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:10 -0500North American stocks climbed higher Monday, as economic data on both sides of the border bolstered the case for a steady economic recovery and commodity prices rose against a weakening U.S. dollar. ... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:07 -0500TORONTO -- The Canadian dollar rose on Monday, boosted by stronger equity and commodity prices, including a record level for gold, with solid domestic retail sales data also providing support. The cu... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:06 -0500Hewlett-Packard Co said a strong performance in China and improved profit margins in its services business helped drive quarterly earnings 14% higher. Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:04 -0500The sentencing of Stan Grmovsek, a former Canadian stock trader who pleaded guilty in a U.S. insider-trading case, was delayed because immigration officials wouldn't let him into the country. A T... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:02 -0500BOSTON -- Hackers have built a virus that attacks Apple Inc's iPhone by secretly taking control of the devices via their Internet connections, security experts said. The virus has been detected in th... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:01 -0500Twitter, the social internet firm that tracks trends through individuals’ updates of events around them, may eventually go to the stock market for funding if necessary, its co-founder Biz Stone said... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:24:00 -0500TORONTO -- Magna International Inc. will supply major structural components for General Motor Co.'s next generation of full-size pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles, securing the renewal of a key... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:23:58 -0500Sales of existing U.S. homes likely rose for a second consecutive month in October, reaching their highest since July 2007, according to a Reuters poll... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:23:55 -0500Husky Energy Inc., the oil producer controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, said it found as much as 85 million barrels of crude after drilling a new well in the White Rose field off the coas... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:23:54 -0500NEW YORK -- Inventor Judah Klausner filed suit against Motorola Inc. and Research In Motion, alleging infringement of technology patents related to visual voicemail. Visual voicemail lets phone users... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:23:53 -0500SAN FRANCISCO -- Web search leader Google Inc. said it is buying Silicon Valley display advertising technology start-up Teracent, which expands its competition with display leader Yahoo Inc. Online a... Financial Post Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:23:51 -0500 |
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