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Running a hedge fund was long considered the crown jewel in finance but this summer a growing number of managers have called it quits, […]

Merrill Lynch & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Deutsche Bank on Thursday joined other major financial companies in settling with regulators over their […]

BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc. raised its full-year profit forecast on Wednesday as the warehouse club operator benefited from frugal shoppers looking for deals.
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Fannie Mae is raising some fees on mortgage loans its purchases, marking the fourth increase in nearly a year, to reflect higher credit risk […]

With the rest of the world smarting from the global credit crisis and singed by rising inflation, Japan, rarely a top pick of global […]

Personal bankruptcies in Canada rose to their highest level in more than four years in April, newly released statistics show, as a battered manufacturing sector […]

LONDON – Imperial Tobacco Group PLC said Tuesday its profit sank 45 percent in the first half and it plans to raise $9.6 billion (all […]

WASHINGTON–Construction of new homes in the United States posted the biggest increase in more than two years in April. The growth was driven by […]

The head of George Weston Ltd. says executive changes announced last month at the Loblaw subsidiary "will facilitate better overall execution" at the battered grocery […]

CALGARY – A 15-month streak of record load factors ended in April for WestJet Airlines Ltd.(TSX: WJA), as the proportion of seats it filled during […]