March 4th, 2010
Malaysia’s government-linked companies and businessmen are being pressed to boost spending at home amid concern that more money is being invested abroad than flowing into the country.
Fresh ideas to stimulate investment may be included in the government’s so-called New Economic Model, International Trade and Industry Minister Mustapa Mohamed said in an interview on […]
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February 10th, 2010
Auto giant Toyota is expected to recall almost 300,000 Prius vehicles worldwide, ending several days of speculation about the much-embraced and honored hybrid.
Japan’s Kyodo News agency says the automaker will recall 100,000 hybrids in the U.S. and another 170,000 in Japan. The recall would affect only those Prius models that arrived at dealerships starting in […]
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January 23rd, 2010
The world’s biggest brewer, Anheuser-Busch InBev SA, said Thursday that it has agreed to freeze planned job cuts in Belgium to get workers to drop a two-week brewery blockade causing beer shortages at supermarkets and bars.
The company and Belgian trade unions said they struck a deal that postpones the brewer’s plans to […]
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December 14th, 2009
WASHINGTON–The Obama administration’s pay czar is limiting the cash compensation for executives at companies that received the largest taxpayer bailouts to $500,000.
The 25th through the 100th top earners at Citigroup, GMAC, American International Group and General Motors must also take more than half their compensation in stock, and at least half must be […]
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December 12th, 2009
OTTAWA–Mounting governmental and household debt are posing new risks to the stability of financial systems, the Bank of Canada said Thursday in its latest analysis.
The central bank’s semi-annual Financial System Review finds that overall conditions have improved in the short term since it last reported in June.
But it adds that record-high debt […]
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November 22nd, 2009
Ontario Power Generation Inc. had a $259 million profit in its latest quarter, although the provincial Crown corporation continued to feel the impact of reduced demand for electricity.
The profit for the three months ended Sept. 30 was an improvement on the $142 million net loss for the same period of 2008.
However, OPG said […]
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November 20th, 2009
Wal-Mart Stores Inc, which has already cut prices on everything from toys to turkeys to TVs to win holiday shoppers, is now reducing the price it charges for money transfers.
Through January 31, U.S. Wal-Mart stores will charge customers a $7 fee to send up to $200 anywhere in the United States or abroad. Previously, […]
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October 22nd, 2009
If you thought home prices were bottoming out, you may be wrong. They’re expected to head a lot lower.
Home values are predicted to drop in 342 out of 381 markets during the next year, according to a new forecast of real estate prices.
Overall, the national median home price is predicted to drop […]
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October 21st, 2009
International Business Machines posted third-quarter results on Thursday that met analysts’ forecasts, then raised its expectations for the rest of the year, citing improving sales trends during the quarter.
But investors were unimpressed: IBM shares dropped 5% in after-hours trading.
IBM (IBM, Fortune 500) said its net income for the quarter rose to […]
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October 19th, 2009
The government insurance fund designed to protect consumer bank deposits will likely stay in the red through 2012, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chief Sheila Bair said Wednesday.
Testifying before members of the Senate Banking Committee, the nation’s top commercial bank regulator stressed that her agency was taking immediate steps to replenish the dwindling fund. But […]
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