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at 14:43 on September 02, 2010, EDT.
NEW ORLEANS - A mile-long oil sheen spread Thursday from an offshore petroleum platform burning in the Gulf of Mexico off Lousiana, west of the site of BP's massive spill.
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at 12:57 on September 02, 2010, EDT.
CALGARY - Alberta pension fund manager AIMCo says it has been approached by some government wealth funds and others to make a bid for fertilizer giant PotashCorp. (TSX:POT).
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at 09:49 on September 02, 2010, EDT.
NEW YORK, N.Y. - The bidding contest between computer makers Hewlett-Packard and Dell for the data storage company 3Par is heating up. Even before Dell could make its latest offer public, HP has come back with a higher bid.
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at 09:31 on September 02, 2010, EDT.
MIAMI - Fast food company Burger King Holdings Inc. is selling itself to private equity firm 3G Capital in a deal worth US$3.26 billion.
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at 08:28 on September 02, 2010, EDT.
TORONTO - The Toronto stock market headed for a lower open Thursday as commodity prices backed off slightly from solid gains on Thursday that followed bullish manufacturing data in China and the United States.
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at 02:29 on September 02, 2010, EDT.
NAGS HEAD, N.C. - Hurricane Earl steamed toward the Eastern Seaboard early Thursday as communities from North Carolina to New England kept a close eye on the forecast, worried that even a slight shift in the storm's predicted offshore track could put millions of people in the most densely populated part of the country in harm's way.
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at 17:57 on September 01, 2010, EDT.
TORONTO - Some of the most active companies traded Wednesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange:
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at 14:49 on September 01, 2010, EDT.
SAN FRANCISCO - Canadians will be able to buy the new products announced today by Apple but as usual, they'll cost a little more north of the border.
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at 14:45 on September 01, 2010, EDT.
CALGARY - Husky Energy Inc. has agreed to buy natural gas lands in west-central Alberta that could be worth as much as half a billion dollars, doubling its operations in the region as it focuses on boosting near-term production growth.
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at 13:17 on September 01, 2010, EDT.
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple CEO Steve Jobs says iPhone users will be getting a software update that offers the ability to upload high-definition video over Wi-Fi.
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