The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may make it easier for Canadian exchanges and brokerage firms to sell stock to U.S. investors without adhering to the agency’s rules.

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Rio Tinto is studying an expansion of its cutting-edge AP50 smelter project that would more than triple its planned capacity and bring the total price for the project as high as US$2.5-billion, the company said on Thursday.

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The federal broadcast regulator, which is already under attack by one cable titan, has come under fire from another.

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Dell Inc., the world’s second-largest personal computer maker, posted a higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday driven by strong demand and lower operating costs, sending its shares up 8%.

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The personality of corporate brands, such as the creativity of Apple or the honesty of Disney, is so psychologically powerful that the mere sight of their logos, even subliminally flashed on a screen, is enough to make people behave more creatively or honestly, according to new research

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Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s push for a national securities regulator was undercut on Thursday after the provinces showed they could strike a key cross-border deal with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission without acting through a single national body

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Canadians are losing valuable retirement savings on excessive fees for underperforming mutual funds, an advisor to the federal and provincial governments’ pension plan reforms of the mid-1990s says in a report.

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Rising fuel prices are increasingly becoming a factor in how people get to their place of employment and arrange other aspects of their work life, according to a report released Thursday.

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An accepted truism of the global banking crisis is that the big Canadian banks have done rather better than their global peers, avoiding the worst of the writedowns. But that idea is becoming increasingly difficult to uphold as a few of the Canadian banks ratcheted up their losses in second-quarter results announced this week.

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Burma's socialist roadNew Statesman, UK - 8 hours agoToday daily broadcasts in Burmese from Peking urge the peasants to refuse to sell their rice to the government and encourage national groups to fight …

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