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at 4:37 on November 7, 2009, EDT.
British Treasury chief Alistair Darling has urged the world's top finance officials to reach an agreement on bearing the cost of fighting climate change before a UN summit on global warming next month.
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at 16:46 on November 6, 2009, EDT.
TORONTO - The Toronto stock market advanced Friday as investors dealt with dismal employment data from Canada and the United States and as gold stocks continued to run ahead amid record high bullion prices.
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at 6:24 on November 6, 2009, EDT.
SEOUL, South Korea - Asian markets advanced Friday on the back of Wall Street's rally after upbeat economic figures revived confidence about the state of the American economy. But European stocks were little changed amid caution ahead of a key U.S. jobs report.
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at 4:21 on November 6, 2009, EDT.
SINGAPORE - Oil prices climbed toward US$80 a barrel Friday in Asia as crude investors eyed a surge in global stock markets.
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at 15:57 on November 6, 2009, EDT.
ST. ANDREWS - The world's top financial officials on Friday sought a blueprint for securing future global growth and worked to break a deadlock over who bears the cost of fighting climate change.
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at 16:12 on November 6, 2009, EDT.
DETROIT - Carl-Peter Forster, the chief executive of General Motors Europe who runs its struggling Opel unit, will leave the company, GM said Friday.
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at 10:54 on November 6, 2009, EDT.
OTTAWA - Canada's economy shed more than 43,000 jobs last month in a clear indication that the struggling economy is still feeling the aftershock of the deep recession that erupted a year ago.
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at 8:32 on November 6, 2009, EDT.
TORONTO - Discontinued businesses continued to plague Kingsway Financial Services Inc., (TSX:KFS) as the truck and auto insurance company widened its loss in the third quarter amid aggressive restructuring efforts.
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at 17:48 on November 6, 2009, EDT.
MONTREAL - Air Canada (TSX:AC.B) is seeing small signs of improvement in air travel but says a full recovery in its key business class could be least a year away, the airline's chief executive said Friday.
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at 16:10 on November 6, 2009, EDT.
OTTAWA - Canada's economic recovery is suddenly looking vulnerable after Statistics Canada shocked observers Friday with new data showing the country lost 71,000 jobs last month.
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