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How to lift the stress load for your employees
Morning Manager

Four ways to ease the stress load for employees

How to create a ‘culture of thriving’ in your company

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty with the Peace Tower in the background. Mr. Flaherty's plan for a national securities regulator was shot down in December by the Supreme Court.
BARRIE MCKENNA

Turf wars shouldn’t block a national securities regulator

Even though the Supreme Court struck down the idea, a more rugged regulatory architecture is still needed

Cary List, President of the Financial Planning Standards Council, on Jan. 31, 2012.
AT THE TOP

Financial planning is a year-round activity

Too many Canadians leave it until RRSP season and then scramble to make a decision – perhaps a wrong one

Manulife Financial President and CEO Donald Guloien stands before speaking at their Annual Meeting in Toronto May 5, 2011. Analysts are forecasting further losses for Manulife Financial Corp.
At the bell

Little to bank on with insurance industry stocks, analysts predict

Euro zone crisis, falling interest rates continue to undermine near-term performance

Women and children in the southern village of Bonia in Chad's oil-producing Doba basin, Oct. 8, 2003. Griffiths Energy is facing an internal investigation into its oil contracts in Chad, considered one of the 20 most corrupt nations in the world.

Griffiths Energy cancels ambitious IPO plan

Plans to focus on oil contracts in Chad, even as that project faces internal investigation

Transportation

Harrison turns up heat in CP proxy battle

Former CN head, choice of activist investor to head Canadian Pacific, says he’s ready for a fight over railway’s future direction

Advertising

Super Bowl ad war shifts to social media

Advertisers craft teasers and interactive features in the hope their campaigns will go viral

Miners look to a future of automated operations

Companies research running surface, underground pits from control centres thousands of kilometres away

Swiss banks prepare strategy after U.S. indicts Wegelin

Uproar builds over tax-evading American clients

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Investors push indexes to multi-year highs

Nasdaq composit closes at best point since dying days of dot-com bubble in Decmeber, 2000

David Berman
Calendar
Nissan, Toyota report earnings, Tuesday

Get up to speed on the business news that matters

Feb. 6 - 10
Data releases
The ROB economic calendar

Stay on top of key economic indicators, Bank of Canada announcements, personal finance deadlines and more with the year-long ROB calendar

GIVING BACK
Targeting nontraditional donors gets library built

Rather than tapping into the usual sources, young fundraisers focused on gathering smaller donations

From left, Cesia Green, Tim Johnston, and Andrea Ryan
Streetwise
Trilogy bought deal costs banks $6.5-million

With banks facing a big loss, underwriting syndicate splinters

Gadget
Review: Orb Mini-T amps up your office sound

But if you need bass, adding a sub-woofer will eat into the ‘compact’ selling point

The Mini-T goes for $118 in specialty audio stores, but you can purchase it directly from Orb Audio’s website for the much more reasonable price of $69. Throw in a pair of Mod1 speakers and you’re looking at $299.
Investor Clinic
A primer on payout ratios (and why they could soon be rising)

Dividends depend on the industry, stage of growth and what investors demand

CASE STUDY
Entrepreneur overcomes challenges to get app off the ground

The creator of Gingle, a live video streaming app, is now readying to take it to the next level

Erik Gingles
Real Estate
Second home could become a primary headache

Purchase of a vacation getaway outside Canada can trigger unforeseen costs

Slideshow
Facebook's meteoric rise

As Facebook prepares to raise $5-billion in an IPO, here's a look at how far the company has come

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg