WASHINGTON - U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's nomination to a second term will be the subject of a Senate Banking Committee hearing next ...
WILMINGTON, Del. - Refineries from New Mexico to New Jersey are under severe economic pressure because of falling demand for fuel, with a number ...
VANCOUVER, B.C. - MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX:MDA) announced Friday that it has signed a satellite technology contract with the Russian Radio Research ...
FRANKFURT, Germany - General Motors Co. said it expects to release a full restructuring plan for its Opel and Vauxhall operations in mid December, ...
TORONTO - Ontario Power Generation Inc. had a $259-million profit in its latest quarter, although the provincial Crown corporation continued to feel the impact ...
TOKYO - Japan's government highlighted the danger of deflation for the first time in three years Friday, warning that falling prices and a further ...
OTTAWA - A federal regulator says bankruptcies in September jumped 43.3 per cent from the same month a year earlier.
The Office of the Superintendent ...
CALGARY - Angle Energy Inc. (TSX:NGL) is making an all-cash offer to acquire Stonefire Energy Corp. (TSXV:SFE) in a friendly deal valued at $75 ...
CALGARY - Leader Energy Services Ltd. (TSXV:LEA) felt the brunt of a harsh oil and gas market, but the company was able to narrow ...
TOKYO - Sony's new online service connecting the whole range of its gadgets to downloadable content like movies and games should help build brand ...
LONDON - European stock markets rose Friday despite a drop in Asia as investors recouped some of the previous day's hefty losses ahead of ...
FRANKFURT, Germany - German carmaker Volkswagen AG said Friday its supervisory board had approved certain agreement contracts for the planned merger with German sportscar ...
SINGAPORE - Oil prices hovered below US$78 a barrel Friday in Asia as investors eyed a volatile U.S. dollar and mixed economic data.
Benchmark crude ...
VANCOUVER, B.C. - A British Columbia student who founded one of the world's largest Internet song lyric websites has taken the top prize at ...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Treasury Department said Thursday it will auction off warrants for three banks that it acquired as part of last fall's ...
Liar’s Poker author Michael Lewis has a great review in The New Republic of Alice Schroeder’s biography of Warren Buffett, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. Lewis says as much about Buffett as he does about the book in his analysis. Hat tip to Paul Kedrosky for pointing to the review. Also worth a read: Canadian [...]
I had a conversation earlier today in Montreal with Jeffrey Immelt, the chairman and CEO of General Electric Co. (GE), who was pretty blunt in his assessment of the so-called Buy American provision in President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill. “I think it’s terrible,” Immelt said, before speaking at the International Economic Forum of the Americas here. [...]
This week I spoke to Tom Bradley, president of Steadyhand Investment Funds Inc., a Vancouver-based, mutual-fund group launched in April, 2007. He wanted to fill me in on what his funds were all about (I had inadvertently overlooked them in an article I did on low-fee funds awhile back). Normally, I tend to avoid actively managed [...]
The results of Cone’s 2009 Consumer New Media Study include two points that I found to be remarkable: “Forty-four percent of American new media users are searching for, sharing or discussing information about corporate responsibility (CR) efforts and programs…” “Sixty-two percent of users polled believe they can influence business decisions by voicing opinions via new media channels. ” While the [...]
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