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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No respite seen to food inflation in developing nationsHindu Business Line, India - 9 hours agoMuch of the expansion in world imports is fuelled by demand in Africa and Asia, with Thailand forecast to account for around one-third of all rice exports. …
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TopNewsPhilippines Targets Higher Rice Output, Seeks Land (Update1)Bloomberg - May 26, 2008Rice-importing nations across Asia are seeking to increase production as prices rise to records, driven by export curbs and increased demand. …The Rice Problem Inquirer.netRising oil prices seen to keep rice prices high in next two years ABS CBN NewsPhilippines urges cooperation on rice ForbesInquirer.net - ABS CBN Newsall 105 news articles
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US soy futures extend losses on weak oil;rice upNinemsn, Australia - 4 hours agoSEOUL, May 30 (Reuters) - US soybean and corn futures were lower in early Asian trading on Friday, pressured by a rally in the US dollar and a sharp fall in …
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Monsters and Critics.comUN Warns Burma's Food Security at RiskVoice of America - 8 hours ago… the region as migrants simply because they can no longer survive in their own country, which ironically used to be considered "the rice bowl of Asia". …Burma to let in all aid workers ITV.comBan Ki-moon to meet Burma leader BBC NewsMyanmar: What's with that place? Sun-Sentinel.comReutersall 1,631 news articles
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Rice Slumps to Two-Month Low on Increased Supply, Fewer CurbsBloomberg - 22 hours agoThe price of 100 percent Grade B white rice dropped to $960 a ton from $1038 last week. Farmers across Asia have boosted rice production to take advantage …Export curbs may be eased Economic TimesIndia may end wheat, basmati rice export bans Reuters IndiaRice price set to rise in the UAE Khaleej TimesTri State Observer - Reuters Indiaall 29 news articles
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