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Yahoo's rise in Asia offsets risk from Tumblr bet
By Alexei Oreskovic. SAN FRANCISCO | Tue May 21, 2013 12:19am EDT. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's $1.1 billion acquisition of blogging service Tumblr will be a test of her ability to revive the aging Web portal.
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MONTREAL - Many Montreal offices are closed this holiday Monday but other services vary: Most City of Montreal offices, including Acces Montreal offices and borough offices, are closed through Monday.
Power is back on in Lindenwoods today after the lights went out around 5:30 p.m. on Sunday. It appears a goose hit an overhead power line, cutting electricity to 2,700 people.
Alberta's beef industry is still in decline, with Canadians eating less of the meat and fewer producers raising cattle 10 years after BSE, or mad cow disease, savaged the industry.
Jill Hoeppner shows supplier Camilo Ruiz the new calves on March 27 at the family's Abbotsford dairy farm. Photograph by: Ward Perrin, PNG Files , The Province.
Investors who bought into Sony Corp.'s convertible bond issue last year may reap profits of as much as $1.7 billion, after the shares surged to more than double the price at which the debt can be redeemed for equity.
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| DI.UN | Dundee International Real Estate Inves | -2.55% | 774.79M |
Bank of Canada daily digest
| Money markets | Change | |
| Overnight rate | 1.00% | -0.0019 |
| Corporate paper, 1 month | 1.12% | 0.00 |
| Treasury bill, 1 month | 0.950% | +0.0100 |
| Inflation | ||
| Total consumer price index | 0.400% | -0.6000 |
| Interest rates | ||
| 10 year bond | 2.31% | -0.0400 |
| Prime business rate | 3.00% | 0.00 |
| Conventional mortgage, 5 yrs | 5.14% | 0.00 |