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MONTREAL, QUEBEC (MARKET WIRE) National Bank Financial Group (TSX: NA) is pleased to announce that it has renewed its partnership with the internationally renowned Orchestre symphonique de Montreal, for the next three seasons. The Financial Group will, once again, act as a collaborator until 2012.

GE lost its last triple-A credit rating as Moody's lowered its ratings two notches for GE and GE Capital.

In the UK, anemic economic growth is set to bring inflation lower, with the Consumer Price Index expected to decline to just 2.6% in the year to February,...

Tuberculosis declined in California last year to its lowest level on record, state health officials announced Monday.

The Obama administration aimed squarely at the crisis clogging the nation's credit system Monday with a plan to take over up to $1 trillion in sour mortgage securities with the help of private investors. For once, Wall Street cheered. The announcement,...

FRANKFURT (AP) - German steelmaker and packaging company Salzgitter AG said Thursday that its full-year net profit fell by 25 percent last year, and added that it also expects lower earnings at least during the first half of 2009.

) - Gold dropped slightly on Monday as the government plan to subsidize private investors' purchase of toxic assets of troubled banks reduced the need for a hedge investment. The decline was the fifth in six sessions for gold. April-dated gold fell to

GE lost its last triple-A credit rating as Moody's lowered its ratings two notches for GE and GE Capital.

March 23, 2009
 450 Nm ( 332 lbs-ft) of torque was once considered V8 territory, which just goes to show how times change. The BMW ALPINA D3
makes 450 Nm from a 2.0-litre, four-cylinder, turbo-charged diesel engine. The D supposedly stands for diesel, but could equally stand for Drehmoment, German for torque - just off idle, at 1500 rpm, the little monster is already producing an impressive 400 Nm of torque thanks to the smaller of its twin turbos already bringing serious induction pressure to bear, and while the car is capable of 152 mph and 0-100 km/h in 6.9 secs, the official fuel consumption and emission figures tell a very different story: 52.3 mpg (overall EU) and 143 g/km (manual gearbox version).
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An ugly economy has affected not only Silicon Valley's residential real estate market; it's pummeling the commercial real estate market as well.