Black Friday online traffic jumped 307% on last year, says John Lewis
UK chain of upscale department stores John Lewis said that the number of online visitors to its website from midnight to 6am on Black...
TSX plunges Thursday and Friday as oil price continues down
The Toronto Stock Exchange’s SP/TSX Composite Index fell 116 points on Thursday and 177.74 on Friday to 14,744.7 as investors continued selling off energy...
Inflation in the Eurozone drops as oil prices plunge
With oil prices plunging inflation in the eurozone has fallen by 0.3 percent in the year to December, according to official figures released on Friday.
The European...
Wall Street up for sixth straight week despite a plummet in oil prices
Despite oil prices plunging US stocks ended flat on Friday and major indexes rose for a sixth straight week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at...
OPEC decision has hit US oil companies hard
A day after OPEC made its decision not to cut oil production the prices of oil dropped their lowest levels since 2010 and oil...
Canadian economy growing at 2.8%, but oil price fall will push that down in...
Canada’s GDP grew by 2.8% annually in the third quarter, according to a Statistics Canada report issued on Friday, which was considerably higher than...
Eurozone inflation slides closer to deflation danger zone
Inflation in the Eurozone slid to 0.3% in November compared to 0.4% in October, bringing the currency bloc dangerously closer to a deflationary spiral...
Drax and InterGen fined £39m for failing low income households
Drax Power and InterGen have been fined a total of £39 million for failing to meet energy measures to households in low-income areas.
Ofgem, the...
Tembec production halted due to strike at Temiscaming lumber mill
Canadian multinational paper company Tembec Inc. halted production at its Temiscaming lumber mill, in Quebec near the border of Ontario, following a strike by...
Suzanne Côté named to Supreme Court of Canada by Stephen Harper
Suzanne Côté has been named by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to the Supreme Court of Canada. Ms. Côté is the first female from private...