Dean Beeby, The Canadian Press June 29, 2008 - 2:53 p.m. OTTAWA - Almost half of Via Rail's passenger trains arrived late past the winter - and numerous were very tardy, says a new report. The slumping performance, in a year when the Crown corporation promised to get greater degree of trains to the station on time, is being blamed without interruption severe weather that crippled Via Rail's aging locomotives and damaged tracks, switches and signals. For the first ...
Day4 Energy says rapid expansion plans on track, needs to boost stock price
Jun 30 2008
Brenda Bouw, The Canadian Press June 29, 2008 - 12:15 a.m. VANCOUVER - The head of solar firm Day4 Energy Inc. (TSX:DFE), which operates in one of the fastest augmenting areas of the alternative power sector, says the company's rapid expansion plans are on track and it's moving to better market its proprietary technology to help boost sales and its fallen stock price. John MacDonald, co-founder, chairman and chief executive of Day4, which makes solar electric modules, said recently ...
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When pickup sales dived, automakers in United States changed plans
Jun 30 2008
Tom Krisher, The Associated Press June 29, 2008 - 12:15 a.m. A re-enforce in a full-size Ford F-150 pickup truck drives down a street in Santa Monica, Calif., Friday, June 27, 2008. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Reed Saxon DEARBORN, Mich. - Every morning, just after getting coffee, Mark Fields fires up his laptop to pore over a computer model showing real-time U.S. auto ...
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Stocks likely in for further pressure following dismal second quarter
Jun 30 2008
Malcolm Morrison, The Canadian Press June 29, 2008 - 12:16 a.m. TORONTO - Stock markets look set for more losses after a dismal end to the second quarter to the degree that investor unease over the existing pecuniary crisis reached new heights and oil surged to new record levels, putting even modest economic advancement in peril. "It's a period of great uncertainty," said Danielle Park of Venable Park Investment Counsel in Barrie, Ont., who thinks we won't see much ...
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Chinese investment fund manager pays $2.1M to dine with Warren Buffett
Jun 29 2008
The Associated Press June 28, 2008 - 9:49 p.m. OMAHA, Nebraska - A Chinese investment fund manager has won the hap to hold lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett by bidding $2.1 the great body of the people in the most numerous expensive charity cant ever held on EBay. Zhao Danyang of the Hong Kong-based Pureheart China Growth Investment Fund won the auction that ended Friday evening with a bid of $2,110,100. A spokeswoman for the Glide Foundation, which receives ...
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