Loans tighten reins on racetrack firm

Magna Entertainment Corp. has bought more time again so it can find money or reorganize to stay alive.
MI Developments Inc., which controls MEC, said yesterday […]

Second U.K. travel firm fails

LONDON–A second British vacation company has gone bust, the country’s aviation regulator said yesterday, two days after the U.K.’s Number 3 tour operator collapsed.
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Several Gulf platforms destroyed by Ike

HOUSTON – Hurricane Ike appears to have destroyed a number of production platforms and damaged some of the pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico, federal […]

Oil rises as Ike nears Texas

NEW YORK – Crude oil on the futures market briefly sank below the US$100-a-barrel Friday for the first time in five months – suggesting […]

Lululemon Athletica profit up

VANCOUVER–Sportswear retailer Lululemon Athletica Inc. posted Thursday a second-quarter profit of US$11.1 million, up from a year-ago $5.1 million, as net revenue rose 48 […]

RIM launches flip version of BlackBerry Pearl phone

Research In Motion Ltd. is launching a flip version of its popular BlackBerry Pearl smartphone, a move that reasserts its push into the retail […]

BlackBerry relaunched as flip phone

MONTREAL – The BlackBerry is getting a new look as a flip phone, a design that its maker Research In Motion hopes will appeal […]

TSX plunges 487 points

Canada’s September stock-market rout intensified yesterday as crumbling oil prices punctured energy stocks and helped put the country’s main stock index on the cusp of […]

Horizon Air to offer Sacramento-Santa Barbara service

After less than a week, Sacramento landed another airline with non-stop service to Santa Barbara.
Horizon Air, a regional carrier connected to Alaska Airlines, will begin […]

Top Mass. regulator makes waves in ARS debacle

Massachusetts’ top securities regulator has sparked fear in some big banks and fund firms, as local investors often laud him as a white knight.
Elected […]