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Droughts, rising food prices predicted for 2013 Fallback Image Decorative pattern

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Droughts, rising food prices predicted for 2013

If conditions don’t improve, food prices will likely remain high this year after a record 2012 for grain futures.

By Staff |January 23, 2013

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Fan pays $4.2M for Batmobile Fallback Image Decorative pattern

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Fan pays $4.2M for Batmobile

Batman fans around the world are known to hoard related merchandise – the suit, tees, action figures, and even briefs – but Batman superfans, apparently, are driven more by the real deal. That is, the original Batmobile with a price tag of $4.2 million. Last weekend, one such fan from Arizona bought the superhero conveyance […]

By Staff |January 22, 2013

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Entitlement reform key to recovery: TD economist Fallback Image Decorative pattern

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Entitlement reform key to recovery: TD economist

How advanced economies deal with government debt will shape the economic and investment landscape for the next 10 years, Craig Alexander, senior vice president and chief economist, TD Bank Group, said at a Strategy Institute Summit in Toronto.

By Dean DiSpalatro |January 22, 2013

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Fair-weather funds forsake fixed income Fallback Image Decorative pattern

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Fair-weather funds forsake fixed income

Encouraged by stock market returns for 2012, equity investors are in a risk-on mode as they move their money out of bonds and into stocks. In the U.S., investors bought $1.8 billion worth of mutual funds and ETFs in the first week of 2013. The shift, dubbed by market watchers the “great rotation,” reverses a […]

By Vikram Barhat |January 21, 2013

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