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Toronto's main stock market index closed moderately lower Thursday as concerns about tighter credit in China and doubts about an aid plan for debt-stricken Greece pressured commodity prices.
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Regulators have approved three expansion stages at Suncor Energy Inc.'s Firebag oil sands project that will eventually add output of 188,000 barrels of bitumen a day, Suncor said Thursday.
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Canada took a gloomy look at what could go wrong with the global economy on Thursday, warning of prolonged recession or a new debt-driven crisis unless countries push ahead with promised reforms.
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Canadians need to save between 10 percent and 21 percent of their pretax incomes each year - if they save consistently for 35 years - to have comfortable retirement incomes, according to a new report by former Bank of Canada governor David Dodge.
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At a new store on a hardscrabble patch of Danforth Avenue in east Toronto, new wireless entrant Public Mobile Inc., which is targeting low-income Canadians, announced it would open stores immediately and turn on its network in May. More »
U.S. consumer prices were unexpectedly unchanged in February as a drop in energy costs was offset by higher food and medical care costs, a government report showed on Thursday, backing up the Federal Reserve's commitment to ultra low interest rates. More »
Package delivery giant FedEx Corp. posted sharply higher profit of $239 million US, topping expectations, citing an improving global economy, but its shares gave back gains racked up ahead of the earnings announcement. More »
Israel's Teva has won the battle for German generic drugmaker Ratiopharm, paying an enterprise value of nearly $5 billion US (3.625 billion euros) to fix the industry leader's weakness in the world's second-largest generics market. More »
The United States kept up pressure on China on Thursday to let the yuan climb as Beijing disclosed it was sounding out exporters on whether they could cope with a stronger exchange rate. More »
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