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Canadian Company Fairfax Financial warned United States SEC on "naked" short selling in 2005 http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=663953 Barbara Shecter, Financial Post Published: Friday, July 18, 2008 A ...

A Canadian company warned U. S. regulators about the damage inflicted by "naked" short selling nearly two years before the Securities and Exchange Commission moved this week to curb the practice and shore up ...

Canadian stocks barely advanced Wednesday as gains in energy, materials and utilities offset losses in other sectors.

Here are five things you might wish to check out as time permits between now and Monday morning: John Heinzl writes in The Globe and Mail about the credit crunch creating bargains for value investors .

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has raised its counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd.'s operating insurance companies to 'BBB+' from 'BBB', as well as its ...

King Pharmaceuticals is the new portfolio position established today. I bought the stock at $9.98 per share and it closed at $9.99. King makes and markets prescription drugs.

I was deeply disappointed by the May 25th New York Times article on Fairfax Financial by the Pulitzer Prize-winning business columnist, Gretchen Morgenson, Gauging the Big Bets of a Hot Hand .

Rachel Pulfer From the March 26, 2007 issue of Canadian Business magazine Marc Kasowitz doesn't like sitting still.

You don't have to have a strategy in order to invest. But with the right strategy, you can make investing a whole lot easier -- and more profitable.

I wasn't expecting much of this article when I came across it. But Ian McGugan's "The Next Buffetts" in MoneySense magazine is good stuff.

The prime rate is the interest rate that banks charge their most credit-worthy customers, such as large corporations .

Don't look away, it's a financial. The insurance industry isn't exactly viewed as a panacea for the investment woes inflicted on many of us over the past several months.

In its initial version, Aggressive was an equal-weighted portfolio derived from two different quantitative stock screens, based on companies that trade on U.S. exchanges. via Safehaven

A.M. Best Company, Inc. Source: BestWire Services Wordcount: 144 Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. via Insurance News Net

“The U.S. economy and U.S. stock markets have begun to decline, that means a recession is coming and now it's only a question of how long and how deep”

Lynne Olver files this Reuters report of Fairfax Financial's annual meeting held in Toronto. via Controlled Greed.com

Fairfax recently put money into CanWest Global Communications Corp., Torstar Corp. via The Globe and Mail

“On behalf of the Board of Directors and senior management, I would like to welcome them to our organization. We look forward to benefiting from their experience and expertise.”

ABH US$ MONTREAL, April 15 /CNW Telbec/ - AbitibiBowater Inc. today announced the appointments of Anthony F. Griffiths and Paul Rivett to serve on its Board of Directors. via Canada NewsWire

The following shares may have unusual price changes in Canada today. Stock symbols are in parentheses after company names, and prices are from yesterday's close in Toronto. via Bloomberg.com

Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. , owner of Canadian and U.S. insurers, accused a money-management company of anonymously mailing out defamatory fabricated research to derail a unit's $300 million share ... via Bloomberg.com

The following is a list of companies whose shares were having unusual price changes in Canada. via Bloomberg.com