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No truly comprehensive environmental cost analysis can afford any longer to ignore the growing impact of global data and systems for organizing and storing it.  Not only does more data require more storage, but storage and processing require energy supplies of their own.  And this doesn’t even get at the issue of “data exhaust” or [...]

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The U.S. Treasury still expects it will hit its debt ceiling limit on May 16.  This week, Congress continues to debate the terms of any potential increase in the debt ceiling, while Geithner has taken action to initiate emergency measures by Friday in order to maintain current government spending levels below the debt ceiling.
These emergency [...]

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With news that Osama Bin Laden had been shot and killed by US forces on Sunday evening (between May 1 and May 2 in Pakistan), oil prices dropped and seemed to take other commodities down with it.  More than three hours after the initial announcement on CNN, all commodities have sold off and analysts are [...]

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Chinese New Year typically involves a lot of gold buying, just like the Indian marriage season in late summer and Autumn.  How much higher will the price of gold go as a result of the Chinese New Year?
This year’s Chinese New Year (or Lunar New Year) occurs on February 3rd and celebrations will last until [...]

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The CML Healthcare Income Fund (TSX: CLC.UN) will be converting to a corporate structure on January 1, 2011.  The Fund’s income trust structure will be reorganized into a corporation called “CML HealthCare Inc,” and unitholders will automatically become shareholders of this new structure.
According to the information circular sent out to investors in November, “the proposed conversion [...]

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Most income trusts held meetings for unitholders to vote on proposals to convert from a Fund structure into a corporate structure some time around the beginning of December, 2010 (at least, those income trusts who had not already done so – see this list of some of the popular trusts that waited before converting).
Cineplex Galaxy [...]

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Stock markets reopen this year on a Wednesday.  Whenever Christmas Eve and Christmas Day fall on Friday and Saturday or Sunday, the usual holidays are already taken up by the weekend.  This means that many Federal institutions and businesses will declare an extra two days of holiday right after the weekend.
These extra holidays have occurred in [...]

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