For Canada, crisis in the U.S. and Europe presents an opportunity
What they ve got to do is bring forth a plan that is going to turn that debt-to-GDP ratio around. The S&P downgrade of the United States formerly stellar AAA rating did not tell market participants anything that they didn t already kno

Drooping natural gas prices slow rush to ‘frack’
A series of reports by the Reuters news organization claimed that emails between executives at Chesapeake and its Canadian rival, Encana, showed the companies colluded to hold down prices on oil and gas properties. Both companies have denied any

4 Reasons to Offer Employees Flexible Schedules
Unfortunately, the BLS does not track frequency or other levels of flexible work. Kate Lister, president of Global Workplace Analytics, an organization that helps companies make the business case for flexible work, explains the challenge with cu

SEC investigating data release from Reuters, ISM
The SEC is investigating the relationship between the news organization Thomson Reuters and the Institute for Supply Management, CNBC has learned. The two entities join forces to publish market-moving manufacturing data that is generated by ISM and

A spoonful of sugar makes the additive go down
If you’re a food manufacturer, you know you’re in trouble when something you produce scares people more than Mad Cow disease. When the market research firm NPD Group issued its most recent Food Safety Monitor study of attitudes among American consumers, 65