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Canada’s opposition leaders portray themselves as soul-mates of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama. Should they succeed in ousting Prime Minister Stephen Harper next month, Obama […]

OTTAWA–One of the last pillars of Canada’s economic foundations may be crumbling as the latest survey shows consumer confidence eroding to a new quarter-century […]

Canadian banks are poised to follow in the footsteps of their American peers by announcing more job cuts when they report "bleak" fourth-quarter results starting […]

British interest rates will probably fall further, the Bank of England signaled on Wednesday, with the economy already sliding into recession and unemployment recording […]

Japan’s two-largest banks, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Mizuho Financial Group, cut their earnings outlooks by more than half on Friday, hit by growing […]

The pace of mergers and acquisitions in Europe will slow next year, but there are still plenty of deals to be done, particularly in […]

The Toronto stock market surged almost 300 points yesterday, led by big gains in energy stocks after oil prices turned around following steep losses in […]

A Canadian leader in contemporary affordable design for the home says it had to take aggressive action this year to address rising costs and slumping […]

How much stock-market risk can you stomach?
There’s a tendency to overestimate your risk tolerance when stocks are going up.
But after an earth-shaking week when stocks […]

MOSCOW–Spreading fallout from the American credit crisis has put the Kremlin into scramble mode.
The banking system is suddenly short of cash, which prompted Russia’s […]