Japan’s economy rises out of earthquake slump

Japan’s economy surged 6 percent in the latest quarter in a bounce back from the earthquake and tsunami disaster that is unlikely to be sustained […]

Senate approves jobs benefits for veterans

On Veterans Day eve, an uncharacteristically unified Senate emphatically passed a bill to help unemployed veterans and government contractors that includes the first, small slivers […]

`Crisis of trust’ creates struggle over European bailouts

It’s the “morning after” for the markets.
Gone is the euphoria over a European debt bailout plan that sent stocks soaring two weeks ago. Now investors […]

Sanofi reorganizing research, trimming sales force

French drugmaker Sanofi SA said Wednesday that it’s reorganizing research operations in the U.S. and planning another round of sales force reductions.
The sales job cuts, […]

Top employers: retail

Wal-Mart Stores 13,000
Schnuck Markets 10,640
Dierbergs Markets 4,000
Walgreens 3,657
Supervalu 3,651

Commercial real estate notes

Sansone Group represented parties in these transactions:

Report: Google mulling role in possible Yahoo bid

Google is exploring the possibility of helping to finance a possible deal by others to acquire Yahoo. That’s according to a published report by the […]

Americans Sargent, Sims share economics Nobel

Americans Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims won the Nobel economics prize on Monday for research that sheds light on the cause-and-effect relationship between the economy […]

How this man profits from gyrating markets

Wednesday was a good day for Fawad Khan.
He got up shortly before 3 a.m. and headed to a bank of computers in his Mississauga basement. […]

Bidding wars erupt for prime rental condos

The market for rental condos is becoming almost as hot as Toronto