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Features: Storm Clouds And Silver Linings

<p>CANADA When Canada’s dollar reached parity with the US dollar, it was cause for national celebration. For the country’s corporations, still reeling from the credit crunch, the muscular currency is a very mixed blessing. In recent ...</p>

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Newsmakers : Businesses Prove The Benefit Of Going Green

United States Gardner: More companies are signing up to going green. Global investors, institutions and corporates are increasingly looking to improve their sustainability profile, according to a report by the Worldwatch Institute released in January. The report, State ...

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Newsmakers : New Bank Governor Faces Tough Sledding

Canada Carney: Taking control at a difficult time. Mark Carney took the reins as governor of the Bank of Canada from David Dodge on February 1, at a time when the central bank has ...

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Newsmakers : Cruz Becomes Casualty Of Wall Street’s Credit Crunch

UNITED STATES Gardner: More companies are signing up to going green. Global investors, institutions and corporates are increasingly looking to improve their sustainability profile, according to a report by the Worldwatch Institute released in January. The report, ...

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Newsmakers : Miliband Urges EU To Open Door To More New Members

UNITED KINGDOM Miliband: The European Union should ontinue to expand to the east The United Kingdom’s foreign secretary, David Miliband, says that the European Union should gradually expand further into Eastern Europe, including Russia, as well as into ...

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Features : Buyout Or Sellout?

FOCUS / CANADA FOR SALE The buyout boom of Canadian companies is stirring intense controversy and throwing a harsh spotlight on the role of corporate executives. As the selloff of Canada’s biggest and best-known companies reaches record levels, ...

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Milestones : $100 Billion Bank Fund Buys Time For Treasury

UNITED STATES Hank Paulson: Eager for Uncle Sam to avoid bailing out major American banks. The United States Treasury in effect told the big American banks last month to clean up their own mess and not to look ...

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Milestones : Loonie Bests The Greenback For The First Time In More Than 30 Years

CANADA/UNITED STATES Piling up: The loonie posts record gains against the US dollar. Record prices for Canadian commodities have combined...

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Newsmakers : Offshoring Industry Faces New Opponent: Its Clients

UNITED KINGDOM/UNITED STATES Divett: Offshoring IT involves hidden costs. Offshoring information technology services is an emotive subject that incites mixed responses from most companies. Although Wall Street financial firms were among the early adopters of outsourcing, sending their ...

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Newsmakers : US Shouldn’t Take Its Aaa Rating For Granted

UNITED STATES Nikola Swann: External imbalances put the dollar at risk of ratings downgrade. Standard & Poor’s credit analyst Nikola Swann says the dollar’s preeminent role in the world cannot be taken for granted. The greenback is still ...

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Newsmakers : The Maestro Strikes A Chord

UNITED STATES Alan Greenspan: Introducing his own turbulence to the markets. Talk about good timing. Alan Greenspan’s memoirs, entitled The Age of Turbulence, topped the bestseller list at Amazon.com last month as volatility continued to rattle global financial ...

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Newsmakers : ‘Helicopter Ben’ Refuses To Panic

United states Bernanke under pressure as he fends off calls for a rate cut. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke didn’t exactly call out the helicopters and dump bundles of money on Wall Street last month to keep the ...