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Sawiris's Accelero to Buy Allstream for $503 Million
Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, who has said in the past that he regretted investing in Canada, is giving it another go. Accelero Capital Holdings, an investment firm co-founded by Sawiris, agreed to buy Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. (MBT)'s Allstream ...
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| 946.40 | +4.35 | (0.46%) | |
| 15,267.92 | -26.58 | (-0.17%) | ||
| 1,645.37 | -5.14 | (-0.31%) |
Top stories
Canada ranks third last among economically advanced counties in the amount of paid vacation time it guarantees its workers, a new U.S.
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index turned positive in early Friday trade as fears that the U.S. Federal Reserve will roll back its stimulus program were offset by a rise in National Bank of Canada (NA.
New rules for U.S. meatpackers will require labeling that tells consumers where the animal was born, raised and slaughtered. Sounds simple.
TransCanada Corp. (TRP) won another of the remaining Texas state-court challenges by landowners trying to block construction of the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline across their property.
Vancouver remains the least affordable city to buy a house in Canada while home ownership in Toronto is becoming more difficult, Royal Bank of Canada Economics Research said.
Trends
| Popular searches on Google | Change | Mkt Cap | |
| MBT | Manitoba Telecom Services | 4.80% | 2.27B |
Bank of Canada daily digest
| Money markets | Change | |
| Overnight rate | 1.00% | +0.0009 |
| Corporate paper, 1 month | 1.12% | 0.00 |
| Treasury bill, 1 month | 0.950% | 0.00 |
| Inflation | ||
| Total consumer price index | 0.400% | -0.6000 |
| Interest rates | ||
| 10 year bond | 2.39% | +0.0100 |
| Prime business rate | 3.00% | 0.00 |
| Conventional mortgage, 5 yrs | 5.14% | 0.00 |