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Are energy investors switching to a bet that oil will fall?Wednesday was an usual day for energy equity investors: Their beloved underlying commodity, crude oil, shot up by about $5 (U.S.) a barrel bu

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North American stocks hugged their starting positions at midday on Thursday, following a sharp sell-off the previous day when investors were rattled by higher energy prices and a shift in tone from th

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There have been many critics of the official rate of inflation. Now, heavy-weight Bill Gross, managing director of Pacific Investment Management Co., is turning up the volume in his monthly note to cl

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When the facts change, so do opinions which is why analysts have been scrambling on Thursday morning to update their price targets on BCE Inc. Just a day earlier, most analysts had maintained a br

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A drum-roll please.... BCE Inc. shares fell to $31.80 in early trading in Toronto, down 14 per cent, as investors gave up on the telecommunications company's leveraged buyout by private equity groups.

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Posted 7 hours ago

BCE Inc. looked like a sitting duck on Thursday morning, after a Quebec court sided with bondholders in their contention that the company's leveraged buyout is unfair to them because the bonds would b

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Here's Allan Robinson's At The Bell which you'll find in Thursday's newspaper:Canadian retail sales data scheduled for release today are expected to have staged a modest recovery early this spring aft

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Posted 23 hours ago

You know things are bad in the stock market when crude oil rises to a record high near $104 (U.S.) a barrel and even energy stocks get creamed.But that's what happened on Wednesday after investors cau

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Now that the U.S. Federal Reserve has released the minutes from its last monetary policy meeting, at the end of April, observers have been quick to interpret them: Forget about another rate cut.In the

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Can it be true? Nortel Networks Corp., long the subject of bitter jokes for its money-losing ways and dwindling share price, has been given a modest lift by Standard [amp]amp; Poor's, the credit ratin