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TSX slides at midday
Wed Jan 25, 2012 @ 12:22pm
Canada’s benchmark stock index was sliding for a second day on Wednesday as several big-name U.S. companies issued forecasts that failed to meet analysts’ estimates, and pending home sales south of the border fell in December after hitting a 19-month high the previous month ...
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Leonard Katz appointed interim CRTC chairman
Wed Jan 25, 2012 @ 12:21pm
Canada's federal broadcast and telecommunications regulator has appointed vice-chairman Leonard Katz to the post of interim chairman, following the departure of longtime chairman Konrad von Finckenstein, Postmedia News has learned. ...
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Super Bowl ads keep getting racier
Wed Jan 25, 2012 @ 12:21pm
If the Super Bowl’s sexiest advertising has an epicentre, this is it. ...
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Sci fi fans: New portal offers future predictions
Wed Jan 25, 2012 @ 12:21pm
All the latest news related to entrepreneurs ...
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Davos looks to German Chancellor Merkel to raise spirits
Wed Jan 25, 2012 @ 12:18pm
The world business and political elite looked to Chancellor Angela Merkel to lift the annual Davos meeting Wednesday as Germany again confounded grim forecasts for the eurozone. ...
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Singapore, Emirates, Air France A380s to be checked: European Aviation Safety Agency
Wed Jan 25, 2012 @ 12:17pm
The Airbus A380 planes that must be inspected after cracks were discovered in their wings belong to Singapore Airlines, Emirates and Air France, the European Aviation Safety Agency said Wednesday. ...
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Airbus confirms more A380 cracks, announces fix
Wed Jan 25, 2012 @ 12:16pm
Airbus blamed a recent series of A380 wing cracks on a combination of design and manufacturing flaws and said it had worked out a two-stage solution, while stressing the superjumbo was in the meantime safe to fly. ...
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Drugmaker Roche Holding AG to bid $5.7-billion U.S. for Illumina Inc.
Wed Jan 25, 2012 @ 12:15pm
Roche Holding AG, the Swiss-based international drugmaker and a big force in the Canadian market, is bidding $5.7 billion U.S. for Illumina Inc., a San Diego specialist in gene mapping equipment and services. ...
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J.C. Penney does away with clearance sales
Wed Jan 25, 2012 @ 12:14pm
J.C. Penney Co Inc. is doing away with deep discounts in favour of offering shoppers simpler pricing and promotions, the department store's new chief executive said on Wednesday. ...
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Facebook Timeline forced on users
Wed Jan 25, 2012 @ 12:11pm
Facebook has announced it will convert all profiles to Timeline over the next few weeks. The social network previously gave users the choice to opt into Timeline it now says it is about to make its previous profile style unavailable. ...
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Stellar Apple results point to a good year ahead
Wed Jan 25, 2012 @ 12:09pm
Apple Inc. shares surged the most in more than three years, after skyrocketing iPhone and iPad sales helped the company smash Wall Street expectations, prompting analysts to raise their price targets on the stock by as much as $100 U.S. ...
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World Economic Forum to host Harper talk on economy, oil
Wed Jan 25, 2012 @ 12:09pm
Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrived on January 25, 2012 at the World Economic Forum determined to tout Canada as a trading nation with a solid economic record. ...
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Merkel aims to solve Europe’s debt crisis as Davos leaders say Western capitalism has widened income gap
Wed Jan 25, 2012 @ 12:09pm
A four-year economic crisis has left societies battered and widened the gap between the haves and have-nots, financial leaders conceded Wednesday. ...
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Apple will soon declare dividend, Canaccord predicts
Wed Jan 25, 2012 @ 12:08pm
Also: RBC downgrades BCE; analyst skeptical on future of Sears Canada ...
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IMF head touts combining euro zone rescue funds
Wed Jan 25, 2012 @ 12:07pm
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday that combining the European Union's temporary EFSF rescue fund with its permanent ESM mechanism would help restore confidence in the flagging region and provide a solid firewall to the Greek crisis. ...
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BlackBerry 10 September launch rumour lifts RIM stock
Wed Jan 25, 2012 @ 12:07pm
BlackBerry fans anxiously awaiting new BB10-based smartphones from Research In Motion Ltd. may finally have a date to circle on their calendars and RIM shareholders may be seeing a light at the end of the tunnel as a result ...
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Facebook said to stop allowing share trades
Wed Jan 25, 2012 @ 12:07pm
Facebook, the social networking company poised to go public this year, will not honor trades of its shares in the secondary markets for a three-day period beginning on Wednesday, according to a person familiar with the matter. ...
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Drugmaker Roche Holding AG to bid $5.7-billion U.S. for Illumina Inc.
Wed Jan 25, 2012 @ 12:07pm
Roche Holding AG, the Swiss-based international drugmaker and a big force in the Canadian market, is bidding $5.7 billion U.S. for Illumina Inc., a San Diego specialist in gene mapping equipment and services. ...
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Leonard Katz appointed interim CRTC chairman
Wed Jan 25, 2012 @ 12:07pm
Canada’s federal broadcast and telecommunications regulator appointed vice-chairman Leonard Katz to the post of interim chairman Wednesday, following the departure of longtime chairman Konrad von Finckenstein ...
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Repeat home sales index shows Calgary price decrease of 1.6% in November
Wed Jan 25, 2012 @ 12:07pm
A house price index, which monitors repeat sales, says Calgary prices dipped by 1.6 per cent in November from the previous month. The Teranet-National Bank House Price Index, released on Wednesday, also showed that Calgary’s monthly price decline was the biggest drop in the country of the 11 metropolitan markets surveyed. ...
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