Confidence in business leaders falls to lowest level in a yearKorn/Ferry International's latest survey shows confidence in business leaders has fallen to its lowest level in a year during the second quarter. Credibility had dropped 4 points in the second quarter to 74.
| FULL STORYI have little doubt that critics (and perhaps even fans) of these columns are tiring of my weekly harangue over the sorry performance of Barack Obama. And just when I think I can spend a week actually thinking about something else on which to comment, he renders such fancy impossible by proposing yet another inane scheme for spending our great, great, great grandchildren's hard earned tax dollars. This week is no exception.
| FULL STORYU.S. Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit's Maritime Raid Force recaptured the Magellan Star from Somali pirates who had seized the cargo ship on Wednesday.
| FULL STORYAfter a two-year moratorium, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Thursday that Canada's employment insurance premium will rise when the new budget comes into play.
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The trade gap in Canada suddenly widened in July to its broadest level since 1971, cramped by its neighbor to the South whose own trade gap narrowed 14%.
Trending higher initial jobless claims reversed its course with the U.S. Department of Labor reporting 27,000 fewer claims for the week ending Sept. 3, 2010. Total jobless claims for the week where 451,000.
According to Natural Resources Canada, expenditures on mining exploration in Canada fell 47% in 2009 over the prior year, breaking an 8-year streak of record spending. But with gold and silver prices rising, the holdback in mine expenditures is about to turn the corner, which in the U.S. the same may be true.
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Wrestling star Hulk Hogan was admitted to the Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater, Fla. on Monday complaining of back pain he says came from bending over to collect sea shells. Hogan said spasms from his leg up to his hip finally forced him to face the pain and check himself into the hospital.
Set mostly in the desert, this tale of double and triple crosses involving an old miser (Ni Dahong) and his tarty young wife (Yan Ni) is replete with boisterously unfunny black slapstick.
'Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould' delves deeper into the influential pianist's elusive brilliance than any earlier documentary.
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