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General Motors Co plans to repay roughly $8 billion in debt to the United States and Canada by June, a faster payback of the first portion of its bailout than the automaker previously committed to make.

Refrigerated warehouse company Americold Realty Trust filed for an initial public offering worth $690 million on Monday.

Canada's Khan Resources (KRI.TO) said it rejected an unsolicited bid from Russian state uranium miner ARMZ to acquire Khan for 65 Canadian cents a share, saying the offer was inadequate and contained objectionable terms.

Sales of existing homes in Canada jumped 73 percent in November from a year earlier, just below the record high for the month, in a sign that consumer confidence is recovering as the economy pulls out of recession.

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Exxon Mobil Corp plans to buy XTO Energy Inc for about $30 billion in stock, in a move that thrusts the U.S. energy giant to the forefront of North America's fast-growing natural gas industry.

The town of Livingstone, Zambia, near Victoria Falls, was named after Doctor David Livingstone, the missionary born in Blantyre, Scotland, where I once lived as a child. It is illustrative of how much the world has changed, in such a relatively short time, that it was a mere 150 years since he had become

Descartes said it would offer 12.50 euros per Porthus share, a premium of 20 percent to the stock's Friday close, and pay 12.33 euros for warrants issued after April 2000 and 20.76 euros for those issued after November 2001.

Democrats scrambled on Friday to resolve a stalemate over whether to permit imports of cheaper prescription drugs from Canada and elsewhere as part of a larger effort to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system.

U.S. drug firm Endo Pharmaceuticals' gel designed to prevent infection with the AIDS virus has proved ineffective in trials in Africa, Britain's Medical Research Council (MRC) said on Monday.

OYO Geospace (OYOG.O), a maker of equipment used to collect seismic data, swung to a fourth-quarter loss partly on low demand, excess capacity and low utilization of rental equipment in Russia and Canada.

New home prices in Canada rose 0.3 percent in October from September, the fourth consecutive gain, as record low interest rates and a recovering economy spurred demand, according to Statistics Canada data on Friday.

Canada's hydro-electric producer Plutonic Power Corp (PCC.TO) said its partnership with a unit of General Electric Co (GE.N) will resume construction of the 300-megawatt Dokie Wind Project in British Columbia by January 2010.

Shares in uranium producers offer prospects of long-term gains as China ramps up ambitious growth in its nuclear industry, but the ride may be rough due to excess near-term supplies from expanding mines and inventories.

President Barack Obama's bid to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system appeared to get a boost on Thursday when the top Democrat in the House of Representatives signaled interest in a Senate Democratic compromise.

Canada's ADF Group Inc (DRX.TO), which makes steel superstructures for building constructions, posted a 78 percent drop in third-quarter profit, hurt by contract delays, but said it has a strong backlog and a healthy cash position.

A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Thursday said it found Gilead Sciences Inc's (GILD.O) aztreonam was an effective new treatment for life-threatening lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients.

Film box offices were poised on Wednesday to eclipse 2007's record $9.68 billion in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales with Hollywood eyeing more than $10 billion this year as audiences flocked to theaters during the recession.

Canadian Western Bank (CWB.TO), which said in September it plans to double in size in coming years, said on Wednesday it agreed to buy commercial equipment lessor National Leasing Group in a cash and stock deal worth C$130 million ($123 million).

Driving by industrial yards along Inuvik's icy Navy Road, Jackie Jacobson, an aboriginal guide, hunter and politician, pointed out fleets of idle trucks and clusters of unused oil field equipment.

Canada's Alamos Gold Inc has agreed to buy two gold projects in Turkey from Fronteer Development Group Inc and Teck Resources Ltd in a cash-and-stock deal worth about $85 million.