Crystallex International shares spiked briefly to a four-month high on Friday after the Venezuelan government hinted the much-delayed Las Cristinas gold project may be closer to an official go-ahead.
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Jerry Byrne could barely contain his excitement minutes after the Hebron oilfield agreement was signed this past week between the government of Newfoundland and Labrador and a consortium of oil companies.
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The federal government has edged back into the black, after being in the red two months into the current fiscal year, but with a sharply shrunken surplus.
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Warren Buffett said the U.S. economy is unlikely to improve before 2009, and that he expects the government to take action to support troubled mortgage financiers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Investment giant CI Financial Inc. confirmed on Friday that it is in talks over a possible “strategic combination,” as reported by the Financial Post.
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Crude prices move sharply lower on Friday in the biggest one-day slide since 2004 as dealers turned their focus to rising supply levels and weakening global demand.
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The loonie ended lower against the U.S. dollar on Friday, given a weaker commodity price backdrop, but the big gains it made on Thursday were enough to allow it to close higher for the week.
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The main TSX index finished a strong week on a losing note on Friday, retreating on the back of sagging oil and metals prices, with losses offset partly by stronger financial issues.
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China’s thirst for the grape has come a long way since the eighth-century poet Li Bai — the “Immortal of Wine†— penned “Drinking Alone by Moonlight.†In his most celebrated work, Li Bai recalls enjoying “a cup of wine, under the flowering trees.†These days, it would be a tough task to find a solitary spot in most crowded Chinese cities to sink a cooling glass of Chardonnay.
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