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The 5 Things You Need To Do To Be Healthy: A Cardiologist Explains

May 3rd, 2013

The 5 Things You Need To Do To Be Healthy: A Cardiologist Explainshttp://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-7506/the-5-things-you-need-to-do-to-be-healthy-a-cardiologist-explains.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/BradHermanRealEstate?ref=hl

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Canadian housing: Bursting bubble or gentle landing?

May 3rd, 2013

TORONTO — It’s looking like an unsettling spring in Canadian housing, a market that has proven far more even-keeled and less scary for investors in recent years than in the United States. In what is traditionally the best season of the year for real estate agents, Toronto agent Ecko Jay says the industry is seeing far fewer buyers, a result of tighter lending rules, high prices and fear of a ...

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TD Bank, National Bank slip in ranking of world’s strongest banks

May 3rd, 2013

Five of Canada’s six big lenders placed in the top twenty in a new ranking of the world’s strongest banks, but two of them slipped from the previous year as the industry was hit by ratings downgrades and hurt by a slowing economy and an increasingly risky housing sector.http://business.financialpost.com/2013/05/02/canada-banks-strongest-ranking/https://www.facebook.com/BradHermanRealEstate?re ...

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Citi taps wealthy family clients to boost private bank

May 3rd, 2013

Citigroup Inc (C-N 47.28 0.74 1.59%), one of the world's largest banks, is betting on wealthy Middle Eastern family firms who are in expansion mode to boost its private bank business, senior executives said. Citi's family office unit is part of the private bank business which manages over $250 billion US in assets and serves over a third of the world's billionaires. http://www.bnn.ca/News/2 ...

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Canadian Natural Resources profit falls on charges and weaker oil prices

May 3rd, 2013

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd, Canada's largest independent petroleum producer, said on Thursday its first-quarter profit fell by half as lower prices and one-time charges offset record oil production. The company said net income in the quarter fell to $213 million, or 19 cents per share, from $427 million, or 39 cents, in the first quarter of 2012 as the company took non-cash charges of $2 ...

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Suncor running short of gasoline in Western Canada

May 3rd, 2013

Suncor Energy Inc (SU-T 31.33 0.51 1.65%), Canada's largest oil company, said on Thursday that some of its retail stations in Western Canada have run out of gasoline because work at the company's Edmonton, Alberta, refinery cut the 140,000 barrel per day facility's ability to produce the fuel. The refinery is currently in a planned maintenance turnaround but had expected to continue producin ...

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Surprise BoC chief ready to nurture economy

May 3rd, 2013

Ottawa tapped an outsider on Thursday to head its central bank, bringing in the well-respected head of the Canadian export credit agency, who immediately stressed the need to nurture a choppy economic recovery. Incoming Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz, 57, worked at the central bank for 14 years earlier in his career. But he has spent the last 14 years at Export Development Canada. ht ...

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EU sees deeper euro zone recession in 2013

May 3rd, 2013

The euro zone economy will contract by more than expected this year and budget deficits will decline more slowly, the European Commission said on Friday as it set out forecasts for the next two years. France, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands - four of the five largest euro zone economies - will be in recession through 2013, the Commission's forecasts showed, with only Germany, the largest eu ...

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MORNING NEWS RUNDOWN

April 29th, 2013

Here is your Morning News Rundown for Monday April 29th:http://www.crebnow.com/morning-news-rundown-april-29-2013/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/BradHermanRealEstate?ref=hl

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Buyer Resources: HOUSING STATISTICS

April 29th, 2013

Buyer Resources: HOUSING STATISTICShttp://www.creb.com/public/buyer-resources/housing-statistics.phphttps://www.facebook.com/BradHermanRealEstate?ref=hl

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