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at 12:34 on July 6, 2008, EDT.
OTTAWA - Canada's amazing job creation streak is in jeopardy this week with the release of two market-moving surveys expected to signal a new period of diminishing expectations for workers and businesses alike.
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at 12:35 on July 6, 2008, EDT.
TORONTO - Canadian investors should brace for further losses in the near future as markets suffer a crisis of confidence triggered by slowing economic growth, rising inflation and profit disappointments - conditions made worse by record oil prices.
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at 12:35 on July 6, 2008, EDT.
VANCOUVER - WebTech Wireless Inc. (TSX:WEW) is gaining market credibility after a long-awaited deal with a major U.S. courier company, but analysts say the vehicle tracking and telematics services provider will need to keep the contracts coming to hold investor faith.
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at 15:53 on July 6, 2008, EDT.
NEW YORK - NBC Universal says it has reached a deal to buy The Weather Channel from Landmark Communications Inc. for an undisclosed sum.
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at 16:57 on July 6, 2008, EDT.
MONTREAL - Machinists with Bombardier Inc. (TSX:BBD.B) voted Sunday in favour of a new tentative deal with the company, but it's contingent on the new CSeries regional passenger jets being built in Montreal.
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at 14:14 on July 6, 2008, EDT.
CALGARY - For one week a year, big-business activity in downtown Calgary all but grinds to a halt, as even top executives trade in their office garb for jeans and Stetson hats.
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at 17:18 on July 4, 2008, EDT.
TORONTO - Telecom giant BCE Inc. has cleared the financing hurdle widely seen as the last major step in completing its $52 billion acquisition by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan in the largest corporate takeover in Canadian history.
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at 19:30 on July 4, 2008, EDT.
Oil prices fell more than US$1 a barrel Friday from record levels set a day earlier on hopes that tensions surrounding Iran's nuclear program could ease and cut the chances of American or Israeli military action against OPEC's second-largest oil producer.
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at 15:43 on July 4, 2008, EDT.
SAPPORO, Japan - Between surging oil prices, food inflation and a credit crunch that's depressed global growth, leaders from the G8 economic powers face the gravest combination of economic woes in at least a decade when they gather next week.
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at 12:52 on July 4, 2008, EDT.
BEIJING - Chrysler LLC, looking for foreign partnerships to help drive its business as U.S. sales slump, announced a deal with China's Great Wall Motor Co. on Friday to study sharing technology, components and distribution.
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