Financial


Inside a $25 million game of chicken

Globe and Mail - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 08:00

A first-hand account of what it’s like to be an entrepreneur in a boardroom selling your life’s work to a public company


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U.S. private sector cuts 10,000 jobs

Globe and Mail - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 07:31

ADP figures come ahead of the government’s much more comprehensive labour market report on Friday


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U.S. private sector cuts 10,000 jobs: ADP

Globe and Mail - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 07:31

Payroll processor’s figures come ahead of the government’s much more comprehensive labour market report on Friday


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Global food prices highest in 2 years, UN says

Globe and Mail - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 07:08

Agency says drought in Russia contributed to rise by pushing cost of wheat higher


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Couche-Tard raises bid for Casey's

Globe and Mail - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 07:07

Quebec-based convenience store operator sweetens offer for Iowa chain to $38.50 (U.S.) from $36.75


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Growth area in U.S. job market: bankruptcy lawyers

Globe and Mail - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 06:43

Sports gamblers get BlackBerry app in Nevada; Couche keeps pushing


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China, Australia give world markets a boost

Globe and Mail - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 06:43

Sports gamblers get BlackBerry app in Nevada; Couche keeps pushing


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Optimism in real estate -- and the worst infomercials

Globe and Mail - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 06:34

Did we mention fried beer? Rob Carrick rounds up the best in personal finance reading on the web


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China propels copper to four-month high

Globe and Mail - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 06:25

Focus now shifts to U.S. manufacturing data and jobs report


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China ouput, auto sales rebound

Globe and Mail - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 06:01

Suggests world's second-biggest economy may not be slowing as quickly as feared


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Bombardier quarterly profit drops

Globe and Mail - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 05:36

Posts earnings of $148-million in second quarter, compared to $202-million last year


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High energy prices make Copenhagen green

Globe and Mail - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 05:17

Denmark has, remarkably, lowered carbon emissions. Here's how: Consumers decide


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Economic freedom and the end of poverty

Globe and Mail - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 05:00

A look at what sparked the growth of citizen wealth in Estonia since the end of the Soviet empire gives a recipe for revitalization


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For the UAE, BlackBerry brings vice and diminishes virtue

Globe and Mail - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 03:00

The fight over the Canadian device is about more than the country wanting to spy on its residents. It’s the perceived notion that the technology promotes deviances from a strict Islamic social code that terrifies the government


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Alas, we’re stuck with the U.S. economy

Globe and Mail - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 03:00

Canada had hoped for a stronger American recovery, for the obvious reason that our economy is so entangled with theirs


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We need business to speed up our sluggish recovery

Globe and Mail - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 03:00

The GDP numbers are in and it’s clear Canada’s private sector has been free-riding on household and government spending efforts


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Wealthy want advisers to show them the money

Globe and Mail - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 02:00

Burned by recession, clients demanding simplicity, transparency and improved risk management


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Mid-cap non-financials that outperform

Globe and Mail - Tue, 08/31/2010 - 19:23

Consumer/industrials and telecom/utilities have offered good dividend growth recently


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The little girl who rocks the weather world

Globe and Mail - Tue, 08/31/2010 - 18:39

How La Nina is being felt in parts of the economy


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Outdoor malls on bearish ‘buy’ list

Globe and Mail - Tue, 08/31/2010 - 18:33

Tenants such as Wal-Mart expected to thrive even if the recovery sputters


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