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Why are you watching the Canadian dollar?

Whether you're a snowbird saving for a second home, a consumer scoping out cross-border deals or a manufacturer exporting goods, check out our forums and tell us why the loonie matters to you

Derek DeCloet

The Alberta royalty backtrack

The province pays a lot of lip service to small government while doing the opposite

Florida Citrus Crops Endangered By U.S. Cold Snap
Portfolio Strategy

Comparing the apples and oranges of fund world

Quarterly S&P reports offer good – but not perfect – comparison on how managed funds perform against indexes

Bill Gates: no longer the world's richest
In Review

Required reading: Five essential stories of the week

Where did all the bank bailout money go? Plus, a new world order for billionaires

The Nasdaq

Globe Investor

Lessons from the tech bust

Ten years after the dot-com meltdown, Canada's technology sector is struggling. How will this country nurture an environment to spawn the next Research In Motion?

Dollar pushes Canada ahead of the pack

Surging loonie, 10-month low in unemployment have foreign investors betting on Canada

Lehman report gives weight to lawsuits

Document details alleged financial manipulation in largest ever U.S. bankruptcy; bank shifted billions to make its debt appear smaller

Corporate Strategy

Kinross prospects for growth

A stubborn focus on the long term is reflected in the gold miner's flurry of recent deals in Russia, Chile and Canada

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Bubble thoughts, 10 years later

Sidestepping Pets.com was easy; making money on tech titans wasn't

David Berman
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Calendar
Fed announces interest rate, Tuesday

Get up to speed on the news that matters, before it happens

March 15 - 19
Advertising
Bought in just milliseconds, instant ads blossom on Web

Marketers can buy ads between time someone enters a site and the moment page appears DoubleClick Ad Exchange

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Streetwise
TD gives employees extra day off

Strong financial performance results in reward

Globe and Mail reporter Tara Perkins
Work and play
A hockey rink in the office? Yup

If you think the only time to indulge in a hobby is off the clock, these four business leaders might surprise you

Dress shoes sit rinkside as IT Weapons Inc. employees warm up to play some hockey on the company's indoor plastic hockey rink in their Brampton offices
Earlier discussion
What next for income trusts?

The clock is ticking. Income trust analyst Harry Levant took your questions

Adhocracy
Doritos opens a grab bag of potential

Viralocity contest entrants use viral marketing campaign to their own ends

Peter Chao, Doritos Surge
Wrinkle Wars
Rival Medicis takes on Allergan's Botox

Maker of Dysport offers aggressive rebates in marketing campaign

A doctor in Arlington, Va., injects Botox
Home Cents
Families feeling frugal this March Break

But you can still have fun on the cheap, personal finance blogger Chaya Cooperberg writes

Careers
Who would turn down a promotion?

With Games fever still fresh, the focus remains on gold. But many are content with the workplace equivalent of second place

Market View
Good economic news=trouble

Observers fret over rate hikes

Traders confer on floor of the NYSE
Kevin Lynch
Innovation is our hidden deficit

What would it take for Canada to be an innovative economy for the 21st century?