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The article reports on the decision by the Canadian government to reject the Malaysian state-owned energy company Petroliam Energy Resources Bhd.'s (Petronas') bid to purchase the Canadian natural-gas producer Progress Energy Resources Corp.

The article presents business news briefs as of September 21, 2012 on topics including the liquidation of shares in the mall management company Simon Property Group Inc. by the estate of the deceased shopping-mall magnate Melvin Simon; an altercation between employees at a Chrysler Group LLC automobile assembly plant which resulted in two deaths; and approval by shareholders at the oil and gas company Nexen for its acquisition by the Chinese offshore-oil company Cnooc Ltd.

The article offers corporate news as of May 23, 2012, on topics including U.S. automaker Ford Motor Co., a dispute between the U.S. National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and Canadian securities regulator SinoForest Corp.

The article, citing anonymous sources, reports that the high technology industries firms Microsoft Corp. and Nokia Corp. considered making a joint takeover bid for the firm Research in Motion Ltd.

This section offers news briefs related to international finance as of September 2011 including the demand of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a federal court to order Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA Ltd. to release documents involving client Longtop Financial Technologies, the move of technology analyst Bob Nguyen to testify about receiving detailed nonpublic financial information on Advanced Micro Devices Inc., and the approval of the public listing of PCCW Ltd.

This section offers news briefs related to financial markets including a plan by a Chinese sovereign wealth fund to invest in Spain's savings banks, THE appointment of a chairman at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and the conditional support obtained by TMX Group Inc. for its proposed tie-up with the London Stock Exchange Group PLC.

The article reports that Nortel Networks Corp. will select an initial bidder for a massive portfolio of patents within three weeks.

This section offers news briefs related to corporations as of November 27, 2009. Porsche Automobil Holding SE anticipates an increased loss due to its net debt of 11.4 billion euros in the fiscal year ending July 31. Three board members at the drug-store chain Walgreen Co. including chairman emeritus Charles Walgreen II will not seek re-election. Rogers Communications Inc. decided to reduce its work force by about 3%.

The article reports that the decision of Canaccord Capital Inc. to repurchase the nonbank, asset-backed commercial-paper (ABCP) holdings of most of its retail clients may aid the planned overall structuring of the frozen 33 billion Canadian dollars nonbank ABCP market. It states that the offer of Canaccord to buy out more than 1,400 investors at par means that the restructuring, which was advanced by the Pan-Canadian Investors Committee, of short-term ABCP notes into longer-dated floating-rate notes will likely to proceed.