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The Great Firewall of Wall Street
You're young. You work on Wall Street. Your job involves a lot of downtime. And you're totally cut off from social media. Here's how some enterprising Gen Y financial analysts are fighting back.
Bay Street after the credit binge
As real estate markets cool and Canadians' romance with credit peters out, one might assume that dark days are ahead for Canada's financial institutions.
So how do you profit from a nation of recovering credit addicts? Two words: Retirement planning.
Euro zone faces deepest downturn since early 2009
Business surveys show companies toiling against shrinking order books in November.
Concerns over Autonomy raised prior to HP acquisition
Shareholder group PIRC says it had warned that Deloitte was not sufficiently independent from Autonomy, the software firm that Hewlett Packard bought last year and now accuses of inflating its accounts.
Also, Barron's writer Bill Alpert was suspicious of Autonomy's rapid revenue growth back in 2010.
Rob McEwen wants to build the world's largest gold miner
Goldcorp founder Rob McEwen says his McEwen Mining Inc. may sell a copper project and use the proceeds to help finance its plan to become one of the world's biggest gold producers.
Americans like our oil best
But only 37 per cent of survey respondents have heard of Keystone XL.