Housing starts rise in July CBC News- Canadian housing starts rose 4.3 per cent in July from the month earlier, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. reported Tuesday. The corporation said starts rose to 205,100 units on a seaso...
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Federal Reserve to keep rates low through 2013 CBC News- The U.S. Federal Reserve took the unprecedented step Tuesday of promising to keep interest rates low until 2013, trying to assure investors that it will act as needed to bolster the flagg...
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Wal-Mart quits selling MP3s The Associated Press- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is ending its digital music sales this month after seeing increased competition. The world's largest retailer confirmed Tuesday that it will stop selling...
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Virgin Galactic gets NASA contract CBC News- The space tourism company Virgin Galactic is one of seven companies that will carry technology and research equipment to the boundary between the Earth and space under new NASA contracts....
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Cable, satellite TV cancellations hit U.S. record CBC News- The weak economy is hitting Americans where they spend a lot of their free time: at the TV set. They're cancelling cable and satellite TV subscriptions in record numbers, according to an...
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Markets struggle as worries grow about France CBC News- Stock markets struggled Wednesday amid worries that the global recovery is slowing and that Europe's debt crisis will spread to France. In Toronto, the S&P/TSX composite index eked out a...
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Shares back up in volatile trade BBC:European shares have recovered heavy losses made in a volatile morning's trading, as US markets opened higher.The leading Dow Jones index opened up 1.2% at 10,939.12.Some indexes, like London's...
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Japan nuclear crisis BBC:Japan nuclear crisis: Fukushima alert easedThe tsunami crushed many people's homes in the alert zoneRestrictions on residents living between 20-30km (12-19 miles) from the crippled Fukushima nu...
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Police swell ranks to stem riots BBC news:Some 16,000 police officers will be on London's streets later in a bid to prevent a fourth night of rioting.The government's emergency committee, Cobra, met in the wake of Monday's violenc...
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Flaherty sees 'will to act' on world economic woes CBC News- European and American leaders have demonstrated they have the "will to act" but more needs to be done to rein in global debt and deficits, Canada's Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says. In...
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