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A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission watchdog conducted an extensive, months-long investigation to find out who had leaked information that appeared in two Reuters stories published last autumn, but it was unable to identify the sources, according to a report of the probe seen by Reuters on Thursday.

The best thing we can say about Thursday's stock market trading is that it is now over.

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A strong economic performance by the United States for the year's second quarter is fuelling hopes Canada's economy may too be poised to shift into a higher gear.

The outgoing boss of National Australia Bank has lashed Prime Minister Tony Abbott's planned paid parental leave scheme, saying the country cannot afford it.

Intact Financial Corp. saw a healthy increase in its second-quarter profits compared with the same quarter last year, when the insurance company was affected by extensive flooding in Alberta.

Offsetting a dismal start to the year, the economy grew at a sizzling rate in the second quarter, powered by what the Bureau of Economic Analysis said were improvements in personal consumption, exports and businesses replenishing their inventories.

In this Friday, July 25, 2014 photo, pedestrians walk past a branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, a target for anti-capitalist agitation ever since a 1927 anarchist bombing of what was then a Bank of Boston, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan ruled nine months after jurors found Bank of America and former Countrywide executive Rebecca Mairone liable for defrauding government-controlled mortgage companies Fannie Mae , and used her maiden name of Rebecca Steele.

Dominion Resources Inc. on Wednesday reported profit that declined by 21 percent in its second quarter, and beat analysts' expectations.

U.S. economic growth likely regained steam in the second quarter as activity picked up broadly, which would bolster expectations for a stronger performance in the last six months of the year.

THE wind down of the mining investment boom is hurting Western Australia's commercial property market, with growing vacancies in office space.

Emily Rafferty said Tuesday she will retire at the end of March 2015. She has been president of the museum since January 2005.

A 42-year-old man pleaded not guilty Monday to trying to rob a Wells Fargo branch in South San Francisco.

Deutsche Bank's takeover of Postbank was hit with a fresh regulatory delay on Wednesday, when Germany's Federal Supreme Court failed to give final clearance to the deal and instead referred a lawsuit over its terms to an appeals court.

A man who was imprisoned 21 years for a rape and murder he didn't commit is set to testify at a first-ever Connecticut hearing to determine how much he should be compensated.

Most of the 1,200 people driven to evacuate by a Northern California wildfire that destroyed 13 homes have been told they can safely return after a series of steady gains in the firefight.

Deutsche Bank AG posted a 29 percent drop in second-quarter net profit Tuesday, hit by what it described as higher taxes, declining revenue and political instability affecting the markets.

Swiss banking giant UBS AG has reported a 15 per cent jump in second-quarter net profit from a year ago, driven by strong results from its core wealth management and trimmed-down investment banking franchises despite a tough market environment.