'It is business as usual' for Canadian bank lending: Royal Bank CEO
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TORONTO - It's largely "business as usual" for lending by Canadian banks but... Stock markets retreat on glum U.S. retail news, Teck Cominco layoffs
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TORONTO - The Toronto stock market is lower mid-morning as worries about the... MDS Inc. reports goodwill writedown pushes fourth-quarter loss to $575 million
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TORONTO - Health Sciences firm MDS Inc. (TSX:MDS) says an expected... Walgreen will cut 1,000 management jobs in 2009
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NEW YORK - U.S. drugstore operator Walgreen Co. said Thursday it will cut 1,000... American retailers report dismal December sales as economy falters
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NEW YORK - American retailers reported dismal sales figures for December on... Oil prices fall again with U.S. jobless claims rising, dropping energy demand
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VIENNA, Austria - Crude prices fell again Thursday on more evidence that the... Goldcorp hits record gold production in Q4, 2008 beat forecast
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VANCOUVER, B.C. - Gold miner Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) says its fourth-quarter gold... TD Ameritrade to buy Thinkorswim Group for US$606 million
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OMAHA, Neb. - Retail brokerage firm TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. said Thursday... New jobless claims in the United States drop unexpectedly
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WASHINGTON - New claims for unemployment benefits in the United States dropped... Macy's to shut 11 stores, affecting 960 employees in nine states
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NEW YORK - Macy's says it will close 11 underperforming stores in nine states -... Teck Cominco cuts 1,400 jobs, 13 per cent of workforce to deal with falling prices
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VANCOUVER, B.C. - Giant metals miner Teck Cominco Ltd. (TSX:TCK.B) says it will... Jean Coutu Group records third-quarter loss of $399.2 million
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LONGUEUIL, Que. - Jean Coutu Group Inc. (TSX:PJC.A) said flagging performance... Bank of England cuts interest rates to 1.5 per cent, lowest in bank's history
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LONDON - The Bank of England cut interest rates by a half a percentage point to... Britain's fraud office starts investigation into Madoff's UK operations
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LONDON - Britain's Serious Fraud Office said Thursday it would investigate the... Suncor reports December oil production on target despite poor weather
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CALGARY - Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU) said Thursday it achieved its December... Global auto sales slump to deepen in 2009, says Scotia Economics
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TORONTO - A new report predicts a double-digit drop in global auto sales on a... Audi says worldwide sales top 1 million vehicles for 2008 despite U.S. slump
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BERLIN - German automaker Audi AG said Thursday it sold a record of more than 1... Kuwait's Global Investment House says it is in default on debt
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KUWAIT CITY - Kuwait's largest investment bank says it is in default on the... Reports suggest that Mitsubishi is ready to cut about 2,000 jobs
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TOKYO - Mitsubishi Motors Corp. will slash more than 2,000 temporary jobs in... Dell to slash 1,900 jobs in Ireland, shift European operations to Poland
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DUBLIN, Ireland - U.S. computer maker Dell Inc. announced Thursday it will...