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End of an Era for Yahoo Groups; Curtain Down After 20 Years

For most of the people who had access to computers in the 90s and early 2000s, Yahoo used to rule the world of internet. Even before Google and Gmail...

Wall Street on a roller coaster ride, Is the Market Thinking Beyond...

The US tech stocks have marked a strong beginning to the current week and look to add more to the gains from the previous week. 12 October 2020 witne...

TSX down for second consecutive day; TD Bank & Kinross Gold volume l...

The TSX Composite Index, the benchmark index of the Toronto Stock Exchange, traded lower for the second straight day and declined 0.34% or 55.43 point...

Barrick Gold’s (TSX:ABX) Twiga Minerals pays $250 million cash divid...

  Twiga Minerals Corporation is a joint venture Barrick Gold Corporation and the Tanzanian government. Apart from the $250 million cash divid...

Restaurant Brands (TSX:QSR) releases preliminary Q3 financial report

  The quick service restaurant group expects revenue between US$ 1.32 billion and US$ 1.34 billion in third quarter 2020, down from US$ 1.46 b...

WestJet (TSX:ONEX) slashes workforce, cuts back operation in Atlanti...

  WestJet Airlines will indefinitely discontinue operations in Charlottetown, Moncton, Sydney, Fredericton and Quebec City. The carrier will...

Canada’s GDP to contract by 7.1% in 2020: IMF

  The country's economy will grow by 5.2 per cent in 2021, projected the International Monetary Fund. Global economy set to contract by 4.4 p...

Online brokerage firm WealthSimple is now a unicorn

  The Canada-based digital stock trading platform said on Wednesday that it has raised C$ 114 million from investors. The funding was led by...

BlackBerry (TSX:BB) & Cineplex (TSX:CGX): 2 Trending Stocks Under C$...

Summary Cyber stocks such as BlackBerry Limited have been in demand since over 48,000 accounts were hit by credential stuffing at the Canada Revenu...

The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) sheds its old Avatar to aggressi...

Nations across the world are struggling to fight the coronavirus crisis in many ways. The virus has successfully wreaked havoc across industries, shut...

Bombardier (TSX:BBD) & TFI International (TSX:TFII): 2 Industrial St...

Summary Bombardier’s revenues saw a sharp fall in the second quarter of 2020 to C$2.7 billion from C$4.3 billion in Q2 2019. Logistics compa...

Trump was gung-ho on Eli Lilly Drug; Company hits pause button for C...

The clinical trial of pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company’s antibody COVID-19 treatment was paused because of some potential safety con...

Apple unveils HomePod Mini and a range of iPhones; accessibility rem...

Apple finally unveiled its new range of 5G network-enabled iPhone 12 smartphones along with HomePod Mini speaker in its virtual presentation. When eve...

TSX Composite Down 0.31%; BlackBerry and Aphria top gainers

The broader index of Canada, TSX Composite, declined approximately 52 points or 0.31% to 16,510.83 on Wednesday. The index settled lower after three c...

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Stock Surges Amid Prime Day Event

Summary Stocks of Amazon Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) jumped nearly five per cent on Monday ahead of its Prime Day event. Delayed from its usual slot in Jul...

Who is Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s Supreme Court nominee?

After the tragic death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court Judge nominated by the former US President Bill Clinton, Judge Amy Coney Barrett is s...

CRA opens application window for Canada Recovery Benefit

  After the initial technical glitch, Canada Revenue Agency’s website is now up and running. Canadians can apply for Canada Recovery Be...

Kirkland Lake (TSX:KL) reports Q3 2020 production results, announces...

  The latest quarter (ending September 30, 2020) production was 339,584 ounces, up 37 per cent year-over-year. Kirkland also announced quarte...

OceanaGold (TSX:OGC) lays off 496 employees, warns of more job cuts

  The layoffs were implemented at the Didipio mines in Philippines, said the gold mining company in a statement. Nearly 400 contract workers...

International Energy Agency calls for aggressive carbon emission cut...

  The IEA, world’s top body for energy supply and sustainable future, claimed that the world is heading towards global warming at an acc...