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Top Stories: Overall production at the Rosneft Angarsk petrochemical unit in Russia appears to be normal, after a blast in which one person died. Big News Network.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:55:05 -0500Somalian pirates have been able to buy expensive properties in their own country due to ransoms being paid. Big News Network.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:48:47 -0500Kuwait's sovereign investment fund has sold its stake in US banking giant Citigroup. Big News Network.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:37:43 -0500The annual contest for the Green Car of the Year in the US has gone to a 5-passenger hatchback. Big News Network.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:31:29 -0500Foreign workers have been leaving Dubai in droves, leaving cranes and construction sites behind. Big News Network.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:26:45 -0500China's state-owned Yanzhou Coal has been given permission to take over Australian miner Felix Resources Ltd. Big News Network.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:19:40 -0500The BBC has reported that UK shadow chancellor George Osborne has said he would consider a windfall tax on bank profits if the Tories win the next election. Big News Network.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:13:47 -0500More than one-quarter of homeowners receiving help under a US have now fallen behind on their re-negotiated mortgages. Big News Network.com Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:55:55 -0500The Japanese government has said it will guarantee loans and other funds provided by financial institutions to Japan Airlines. Big News Network.com Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:48:25 -0500A store in Sweden has decided to take North Korean clothing off its shelves. Big News Network.com Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:42:29 -0500Authorities in Italy have seized works of art belonging the convicted founder of Italian firm Parmalat, Calisto Tanzi. Big News Network.com Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:40:55 -0500The Chinese government has expressed fears that the revaluation of gold to its historic high could simply be another example of exhuberent speculation. Big News Network.com Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:24:22 -0500Apple Inc has purchased online music company Lala Media Inc in an expansion of its media arm. Big News Network.com Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:17:55 -0500LOS ANGELES -- Hong Kong shares slipped lower in early Monday morning action, with resources names generally lower as recent strength in the U.S. dollar pressured some commodity prices. The Hang Seng... Fox Business Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:58:58 -0500NEW YORK (Reuters) - If the bulls have their way, Wall Street's rally will keep going this week on signs of stability in the labor market. But concerns about penny-pinching consumers during the holida... Reuters Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:58:10 -0500NEW YORK (Reuters) - TCW Group Inc, one of the largest money managers in the world, fired its chief investment officer, Jeffrey Gundlach, and removed him from its board of directors after buying a sma... Reuters Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:58:10 -0500) plans to add another 15 hotels in India by 2012 and the hotel operator's chief executive said that untapped demand in the country could spell swift returns for the new properties. Reuters Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:58:09 -0500PERTH, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Oil prices rebounded toward $76 a barrel on Monday, after shedding nearly $1 in the previous session, as positive U.S. jobs data buoyed hopes that energy demand in ... Yahoo!7 News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:54:00 -0500SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Blink an eye, and the Microsoft store could be mistaken for an Apple store. The sign over the doorway has no letters, only a Windows logo instead of an Apple silhouette. Woo... Pioneer Press Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:50:45 -0500Published Date: December 07, 2009 UAE stocks recover after Dubai debt crisis losses DUBAI: The Dubai and Abu Dhabi stock markets recovered yesterday amid an apparent return of confidence, closing... Kuwait Times Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:44:18 -0500Submit your comment Microsoft and Yahoo have signed off on their plan to team up against Google in the lucrative internet search market. The step announced on Friday seals the terms of a preliminar... Business Report Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:36:46 -0500TOKYO, Dec. 7 (AP) - (Kyodo)?---------- Tokyo stocks rise on upbeat U.S. jobs data, weaker yen TOKYO - Tokyo stocks opened higher Monday as stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs data and a weaker yen ... Breitbart Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:35:52 -0500TOKYO -- Japan's Nikkei 225 Average was up 1.3% at 10,153.46, and the Topix was at 901.95, up 1.4%, with both indexes trading at their highest intraday levels since late October. Japan Airlines Corp.... Fox Business Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:27:12 -0500BEIJING (Reuters) - Lifting the value of China's yuan currency would hurt, not help, global economic recovery and threaten the country's own financial and trade health, a Chinese state think-tank said... Reuters Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:26:19 -0500The med-tech industry is watching closely as the Obama administration revamps the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the federal agency that reviews medical devices for safety and effectiveness. Pre... Star Tribune Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:35:02 -0500Wells Fargo has taken ownership of a large resort in northern Minnesota and recently hired a Twin Cities commercial brokerage firm to market the property. The local office of CB Richard Ellis is list... Star Tribune Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:35:00 -0500SPRINGDALE, Ark. - Tyson Foods Inc. has promoted two executives to lead the company's poultry and beef and pork units, filling leadership positions created when the company named a new CEO and chief ... Star Tribune Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:34:59 -0500Mara Proctor used to design limestone hearths and columns for luxury homes near Kansas City, drawing on her college education and six years of training. These days, she's leading customers around a s... Star Tribune Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:34:57 -0500Conrad Black that referred, in passing, to him. Desmond v Bower, as the case became known, raises the following issues: libel writs are being used by the rich to suppress objective discussion of the t... Guardian Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:25:53 -0500How the Fairtrade Kit Kats will look. Photograph: Chris North/PA The UK's best-selling chocolate biscuit bar, Kit Kat, is to receive ethical certification through the Fairtrade quality mark, it will... Guardian Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:25:47 -0500New Mandelson rediscovers old Labour's love for industry , 4 December), he argues a persuasive case that UK manufacturing, which has been much maligned by headline writers, will be the source of a ren... Guardian Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:25:44 -0500Alistair Darling on BBC1’s Andrew Marr show. He said public spending would be a lot tighter. Photograph: Jeff Overs/BBC/PA A windfall tax on bonus payments to highly paid City bankers was under co... Guardian Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:25:35 -0500If you want to be a green investor, you can do what everyone else does and invest in firms that make windmills, solar panels or next-generation batteries. Good luck with that. At least a couple of th... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:59:06 -0500It might be enlightening to see how Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney explains the third-quarter expansion of just 0.4% in gross domestic product, annualized, when he was originally calling for 2%. Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:59:05 -0500From punking U.N. security to employing what Guillermo Del Toro called a “perpetual-motion thriller machine,” Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 movie... Wired News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:53:39 -0500The other day I got into a fight with my computer. I usually appreciate the good things it does for me. It enables me to communicate effortlessly with people all over the world. It tells me when I ty... Star Tribune Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:13:03 -0500Common sense has prevailed, for once. The Federal Aviation Administration recently issued new guidelines that clarify formerly confounding policies on whether passengers may put personal items in airp... Star Tribune Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:13:01 -0500If you want to be a green investor, you can do what everyone else does and invest in firms that make windmills, solar panels or next-generation batteries. Good luck with that. At least a couple of th... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:41:14 -0500It might be enlightening to see how Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney explains the third-quarter expansion of just 0.4% in gross domestic product, annualized, when he was originally calling for 2%. Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:41:11 -0500WASHINGTON - The Senate has voted to spare plaintiffs' lawyers in medical malpractice cases from a cut in fees. By a vote of 32-66, the Senate rejected an amendment by Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., to c... Star Tribune Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:50:32 -0500FILE - In this May 12, 2008 file photo, the AOL Running Man logo and other decorations are shown in AOL's New York offices. AOL is shaking loose from Time Warner Inc. and heading into the next decade ... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:33:32 -0500U.S. consumer credit is expected to have shrunk another $9.3 billion in October, marking the ninth straight month of contraction for the longest streak of declines since the data was first compiled in... Reuters Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:17:44 -0500FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The new head of Opel promised investments in new models and pledged to put an end to business as usual at the General Motors brand -- addressing two key grievances by unions when... Reuters Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:17:43 -0500Strip bonds are a core investment many Canadians hold in their RRSPs. They are held in ladders to stagger maturities over multiple years. Investor Economics Inc. estimates there is $128-billion in fix... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:17:16 -0500The Jehovah's Witnesses, 30,000 of them from dozens of countries, have left Waikiki after their convention, which helped pump much-needed money into the Hawaii economy. The JWs, as they became known l... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:17:13 -0500In the last week alone, it has been at the heart of a major funding dispute with China and political chaos in Australia. But despite its growing importance, the world of carbon trading remains opaque,... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:17:11 -0500DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Kuwait's sovereign wealth fund said Sunday it booked a profit of $1.1 billion by selling the stake it took in Citigroup Inc. less than two years ago when the bankin... Tampa Bay Online Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:50:40 -0500WASHINGTON - The White House says President Barack Obama has told Democratic senators to keep up the fight on health care legislation. Obama meet with Democrats on Sunday afternoon as the Senate wor... Star Tribune Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:23:44 -0500WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has pledged to work with Senate Democrats "in any meaningful way he can" to help pass a health care overhaul. That's what Senate Majority Leader Harry R... Star Tribune Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:23:43 -0500Kampala Century bottling company has pledged to increase financial support towards the corporate league, a monthly event where different companies enter staff teams in sports competitions in differ... Daily Monitor Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:20:14 -0500Emirati traders follow the stock market activity at the Dubai Financial Market, as trading closed 1.2% up today. Photograph: Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty The... Guardian Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:15:35 -0500Dublin profits: Henderson and WPP are among the companies that have moved their headquarters to the Irish capital citing UK tax laws Tax investigators are set to issue a series of challenges to glob... Guardian Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:15:34 -0500Bank of England plans to urge major banks to increase the availability of £5 notes in their ATMs. It will also ask retailers to give out more fivers in change to meet consumer demand for the note. ... Sky News Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:00:55 -0500NEW YORK (Reuters) - TCW Group Inc, one of the largest money managers in the world, fired Chief Investment Officer Jeffrey Gundlach and removed him from its board of directors after buying a smaller r... Reuters Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:53:31 -0500Strip bonds are a core investment many Canadians hold in their RRSPs. They are held in ladders to stagger maturities over multiple years. Investor Economics Inc. estimates there is $128-billion in fix... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:53:00 -0500The Jehovah's Witnesses, 30,000 of them from dozens of countries, have left Waikiki after their convention, which helped pump much-needed money into the Hawaii economy. The JWs, as they became known l... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:52:59 -0500In the last week alone, it has been at the heart of a major funding dispute with China and political chaos in Australia. But despite its growing importance, the world of carbon trading remains opaque,... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:52:58 -0500General Motors of Canada Ltd. said Friday it will take complete ownership of CAMI Automotive Inc., buying out Suzuki Motor Corporation's 50% stake in the plant. The move eliminates Suzuki from the Ca... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:52:53 -0500DUBAI: Kuwait’s sovereign wealth fund said Sunday it booked a profit of $1.1 billion by selling the stake it took in Citigroup, less than two years ago when the banking giant was strapped for cas... Times Of India Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:29:37 -0500MILWAUKEE - While solar and wind power get most of the headlines, geothermal power is quietly gaining traction on college campuses where energy costs can siphon millions each year from the budget. S... Star Tribune Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:01:49 -0500Former press baron Conrad Black is claiming that the honest services fraud law was misused by prosecutors. Photograph: Richard A Chapman/AP The jailed press baron... Guardian Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:53:23 -0500John Lewis , the department store group, has recorded its best-ever trading week, suggesting that Britain's shoppers are shaking off worries about the recession and splashing out on... Guardian Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:53:21 -0500Tesco launched a summer fightback campaign extending its Clubcard reward points scheme to attract shoppers back into its stores. Photograph: PR Britain's biggest retailer,... Guardian Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:53:19 -0500Strip bonds are a core investment many Canadians hold in their RRSPs. They are held in ladders to stagger maturities over multiple years. Investor Economics Inc. estimates there is $128-billion in fix... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:32:23 -0500The Jehovah's Witnesses, 30,000 of them from dozens of countries, have left Waikiki after their convention, which helped pump much-needed money into the Hawaii economy. The JWs, as they became known l... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:32:22 -0500In the last week alone, it has been at the heart of a major funding dispute with China and political chaos in Australia. But despite its growing importance, the world of carbon trading remains opaque,... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:32:20 -0500Jean Borlée is standing in a prairie field dotted with pumpjacks, round bales of hay, cattle and cow pies because his company, Luxembourg's steel giant ArcelorMittal, needs help. He has made the lon... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:32:18 -0500The biggest waste of money on the planet has to be a new car -- the moment you drive it off the lot, it starts depreciating. All I need is a clunker as long as my air-conditioning works for humid... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:32:16 -0500The stunningly strong November jobs data from Canada and the United States has kicked off a fresh round of speculation as to when the two countries’ central banks will begin hiking their key interes... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:32:11 -0500NEW YORK -- Gold's record rally deflated on Friday, as prices tumbled as much as 5% after a dollar rally triggered by better than expected U.S. data sent investors racing to cut positions. Gold poste... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:32:09 -0500Canadian stocks fell on Friday, as gold tumbled after a stellar jobs report south of the border lifted the U.S. dollar. The S&P/TSX composite index fell for the second straight day, shedding 125.... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:32:07 -0500OTTAWA - An overwhelming majority of people in Ontario and British Columbia oppose the HST, with most believing the biggest winners from the new tax will be the provincial and federal governments, acc... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:32:06 -0500General Motors of Canada Ltd. said Friday it will take complete ownership of CAMI Automotive Inc., buying out Suzuki Motor Corporation's 50% stake in the plant. The move eliminates Suzuki from the Ca... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:32:04 -0500Federal investigators suspected a decade ago that Galleon Group hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam was trading on inside information but were unable to prove he was breaking the law. Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:32:03 -0500Royal Bank of Canada, Canada's largest bank by assets, said fourth-quarter profit rose 10%, driven by earnings from Canadian consumer lending and money management. Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:32:00 -0500DETROIT -- General Motors Co Chairman and chief executive Ed Whitacre announced a broad shake-up of the automaker's senior leadership on Friday, tightening his grip on the company three days after rep... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:31:54 -0500TORONTO -- Barrick Gold said on Friday that a U.S. Appeals Court judge has ruled that Barrick's Cortez Hills gold project in northeast Nevada requires additional environmental analysis to be conducted... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:31:51 -0500TORONTO - November housing sales across the country are set to reach new highs based on fresh data from the country's two most expensive markets. The national numbers from the Ottawa-based Canadian R... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:31:47 -0500OTTAWA -- The Conservative government might be forced to think the unthinkable: a rise in the GST. An increasing number of economists believe a hike, even a temporary one, is the only way Canada is g... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:31:45 -0500LONDON -- British finance minister Alistair Darling will next week stake his government's future on tax rises for the rich to pay for continued support for the recession-hit economy and to bring down ... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:31:44 -0500TORONTO - Shares in Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce climbed the highest in more than a year after as the country's fifth-largest bank appeared to shake off its recent subprime woes with fourth quar... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:31:43 -0500Two Canadian economists, David Rosenberg and Sherry Cooper, have been named in a list celebrating the top 10 economic forecasters over a period which marked the worst recession in the post world war .... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:31:42 -0500TORONTO - Tony Clement, the federal Industry Minister, said yesterday there was "some urgency" required in determining whether he will uphold a regulatory ruling or overturn it and allow startup cellp... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:31:40 -0500Cliffs Natural Resources raised its friendly takeover offer for Freewest Resources Canada on Thursday, hoping of trumping a rival bid from Noront Resources and gain control of Freewest’s Canadian ..... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:31:38 -0500By a vote of 192 to 32, MPs on Thursday overwhelmingly gave their first nod of approval to the minority Conservative government’s plan to enable Ontario and British Columbia to harmonize their sales... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:31:35 -0500Bombardier Inc. has suspended flight testing on its new CRJ1000 aircraft, and will push back its first delivery into second half of next year. The Montreal plane and train maker had planned to delive... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:31:34 -0500Alberta once again topped the rankings in the 2009 report with a score of 8.5 out of 10, but Saskatchewan came in at 6.6, up from 5.9 in 2008, followed by British Columbia. Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:31:31 -0500Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, making a case for a second term on Thursday, offered a forceful defence of the U.S. central bank’s crisis-battling efforts, which he said prevented an even ... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:31:29 -0500Helped by lower provisions for loan losses and strong results in its core businesses, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce reported fourth quarter results ahead of analyst estimates. Canada's fifth big... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:31:26 -0500NEW YORK -- Exactly eight years after Enron Corp filed for bankruptcy protection, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by investors against banks they accused of helping the energy company commit f... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:31:25 -0500The European Central Bank kept rates at a record low of 1% as expected on Thursday, leaving markets firmly focused on how it plans to handle the delicate process of phasing out its financial crisis ..... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:31:23 -0500General Electric Co and Comcast Corp are set to announce a joint venture on Thursday morning that would give the cable company eventual control of NBC Universal in this year’s biggest media deal. Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:31:19 -0500CN Rail resumed its operations late Wednesday night after the railway's engineers agreed to end a four-day strike, a Vancouver-based coal company said. Western Coal Corp. said in a release Thursd... Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:31:18 -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 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:31:17 -0500BOSTON -- Dear Mutual Fund-Company Top Dogs: The last two years has felt like the worst of times and the best of times for your shareholders, with many of your issues taking them from famine to a fea... Fox Business Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:31:17 -0500A flood of Canadian tax cheats are voluntarily coming forward to disclose hidden assets and offshore accounts in record numbers, says Jean-Pierre Blackburn, the Minister of National Revenue. Financial Post Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:31:13 -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 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:31:12 -0500 |
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