The Canadian dollar held on to gains against the U.S. currency on Thursday as the greenback weakened, but the loonie was expected to remain largely range bound ahead of key monthly employment data due on Friday.
Medical sciences company MDS Inc said on Thursday that the final value of a write-down related to the declining value of its Pharma Services division would be $320 million.
Goldcorp Inc said on Thursday that it has matched its 2008 gold production forecast and plans for a 50-percent jump in output over the next five years.
Two of Canada's biggest banks say the time is not right to rush into large acquisitions in the United States or abroad, even though the global economic downturn has made banking assets look like relative bargains.
Canadian drug store chain Jean Coutu Group reported a quarterly loss on Thursday due to a charge from its stake in U.S. peer Rite Aid Corp .
TD Ameritrade Holding Corp said on Thursday it will buy thinkorswim Group Inc for $606 million to bolster the online broker's industry-leading trading business, and establish it in the fast-growing area of options and futures trading.
The battle between open source and proprietary software is something that is of real interest, and not just in terms of the $1trillion market that it represents.
Tom Bloch walked away from the corporate boardroom and into an urban classroom in 1995. Today he’s still teaching middle school math at the charter school he helped found.
Serial Canadian entrepreneur Suneet S Tuli explains his plans to bring fast and free internet to the developing world.
Peter Fusaro, the Chairman of Global Change Associates, is a recognized “thought leader” on energy and environmental markets and bestselling author of What Went Wrong at Enron. Exec catches up with this man on the move
Kuala Lumpur forms the most industrialized city in Malaysia. Exec finds out how it has become a metropolitan center.
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