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Oil: How Addax won the Iraq war

The airport terminal outside the ancient Iraqi city of Erbil is like any other in the world. Flat-panel monitors flash music videos over the departure lounge. Travellers jostle each other as they funnel through metal detectors. Harried parents corral ...

From JEFF SANFORD, Canadian Business Online,  28 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Saddam Hussein,  Talisman Energy Inc.,  ASA Limited,  Jean Claude

Q&A: Alberta Investment Management Corp.'s Leo de Bever

A posse of officials from Alberta, including Alberta Investment Management Corp. (AIMCo), rode into Toronto this summer to rustle up Ontario fund management talent. The leader of the gang is Leo de Bever, the new head of AIMCo, Alberta’s ...

From JEFF SANFORD, Canadian Business Online,  21 Aug 2009

Food crisis: Fields of gold

A bumper crop of corn set to come in at harvest in the U.S. this year. A global recession hogging all the attention. That’s all it took, and all of a sudden the Global Food Crisis, such a topic of conversation last year, is nowhere to be seen. The ...

From JEFF SANFORD, Canadian Business Online,  14 Aug 2009

Retirement (Special report): Retirement planning - Find the upside

David Chilton lives the way you’d expect from the author of The Wealthy Barber. His home is a 1,300-square-foot house in the country. He enjoys dirt-cheap pastimes, like reading. He spends way less than he makes. Unfortunately, many of us are more like ...

From CALVIN LEUNG, JEFF SANFORD, Canadian Business Online,  7 Aug 2009

Obama’s regulatory splash

The preamble to the new regulatory reform bill being introduced by the Obama administration is interesting, summing up as it does the state of the current downturn and summing up how it is that we got here. Obama thinks were close to a Great Depression ...

From JEFF SANFORD, Canadian Business Online,  19 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

An interesting idea on board reform

Esteemed New York Times business writer Rogers Lowenstein floats an interesting idea in a recent article: To get ourselves out of this mess of a recession let’s democratize boards of directors. What a helluva an idea. Let’s be honest for a minute. ...

From JEFF SANFORD, Canadian Business Online,  19 Jun 2009

Banking: Islam waits

As the Anglo-Saxon ex-masters of the financial universe struggle to emerge from a perfect storm of bad loans, bad bets and a deep recession, an alternative approach to business transactions is having a moment in the sun: Islamic finance, based on ...

From JEFF SANFORD, Canadian Business Online,  16 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Standard Poor's,  Financial Institutions, Inc.

Agriculture: To market, to market

When Canadian chartered financial analysts held their 51st anniversary dinner in Toronto in October, keynote speaker Jim Rogers — the renowned commodities investor and former business partner of George Soros — told the crowd the best investments over ...

From JEFF SANFORD, Canadian Business Online,  16 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Jim Rogers,  George Soros,  John Major,  Margaret Thatcher

Interest in Addax and Kurdish oil heating up.

A bidding war seems to be forming up over small Canadian-registered oil producer Addax Petroleum (TSX: AXC), a mid-tier independent oil producer headquartered in Geneva that has recently begun exporting oil from the northern Kurdish region of Iraq. The ...

From JEFF SANFORD, Canadian Business Online,  11 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Nouri al-Maliki,  ASA Limited

Things are actually kind of looking good for these days.

I’ve been quite doomish on the economy for a while now, both on this blog and in the print version of Canadian Business. But maybe that’s just the Canadian winter having its subtle effect. With spring and now summer just about here, time to give the ...

From JEFF SANFORD, Canadian Business Online,  5 Jun 2009
Related Topics: TED,  Bank of America,  Chrysler,  General Motors

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