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Many countries around the world have opened their economies and have allowed international funds to make investments in local stocks to maximize returns. A comprehensive list of some of the best stocks one can invest in all over the world is featured and it includes companies like Hutchinson Whampoa, Samsung Electronics and ANZ Bank among others.

A report from PricewaterhouseCoopers revealed that the year 2003 saw 39 Canadian Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) of Google compared to 86 in 2004 and the combined value of those IPOs rose to $5.9 billion from $3.2 billion during the same period, an increase of 8.4 percent. Mining was a standout area that saw 15 IPOs in 2004, and IPO boom yielded a couple of tech issues.

Photo: Philip site in Hamilton; Photo: Allen and Philip Fracassi: fast growing; Photo: Sorger in his laboratory; Photo: Philip dump site: a multinational empire that has taken a hard line [...]

Alan Eagleson has salted away millions of dollars Last fall's sale of the undeveloped land around the Monterra golf course below Ontario's Blue Mountain is, by any standards, a peculiar [...]

It is Friday afternoon, and John Cleghorn and Matthew Barrett have spent the better part of the past 24 hours in each other's company. The two bank chairmen, respectively the [...]

Canada's lumber industry focuses on establishing good relations with the foreign investors to promulgate its stocks for the benefits of the country's economic standing. The industry's products are penetrating globally where it shows the Canadian's strong economic stability.

Plans of Toronto money managers Ira and Gerry to go public are discussed.

Nobody can believe the time. It's already past midnight and there's still a fair-sized crowd hanging around the lobby bar of downtown Denver's Westin hotel: 'Randall and his troops,' as [...]

Peter Munk sweeps into the Barrick Gold Corp. boardroom in Toronto, Jack Welch's tough-talking autobiography under his arm. He says Randall Oliphant gave it to him. Somebody else at Barrick [...]

It's not yet mid-morning but already Toronto feels like a filthy sauna. Health officials have warned residents to stay inside and avoid breathing the hot mucky air. Right downtown, where [...]

It's opening night at the theatre, and the air outside Toronto's St. Lawrence Centre sparkles with bright chat and fluttery kisses. The play, a two-man production from South Africa called [...]

When Mike Harris's Progressive Conservative government announced plans to open the province's power market to private competition, it looked like the moment Mike Dupuis had spent his entire life waiting [...]

As Heather Reisman sweeps through the offices of Indigo! Books & Music Inc., she tidies. She closes closet doors left ajar. She straightens a pile of books here and rearranges [...]

It's a hectic time at Gerry Schwartz's Toronto headquarters. Onex Corp. is pulling together a reasonably big deal. Not -- as Bay Street's Gerry- watchers keep waiting for -- the [...]

Inside the Toronto mansion of Heather Reisman and Gerry Schwartz, venue of glittering parties featuring Canada's cultural and political elite, the library is one of the most popular rooms. In [...]

It is 10 o'clock on a clear November morning, smack-dab in the centre of the upscale retailing universe. Glenn Pushelberg and George Yabu -- known around their cutting-edge interior design [...]

For a short while after Bill Gates was branded an innovation-stifling monopolist, the world's richest and arguably most powerful man looked like he might be willing to give up some [...]

As quickly as it all began -- in that flurry of sweeping statements, grand gestures, complicated attacks and even more incomprehensible counterattacks -- it was suddenly all over. The 10-week [...]

On May 5, hundreds turned up in their finest for the premiere of the National Ballet of Canada's revamped production of Swan Lake. Yet, as fabulous as artistic director James [...]

It was 1995, and then-Air Canada boss Hollis Harris had it all figured out. Now that Canada and the United States had signed the 'open skies' deal to free up [...]

In the huge room that used to be the Toronto Stock Exchange, 250 well-dressed men and women gathered beneath the Charles Comfort murals, chatting expectantly. Most of them were not [...]

For almost 24 hours, it looked like this might be the bid everyone had been waiting for. On Oct. 3, a Chicago newspaper reported that Air Canada's U.S. and German [...]

The big black Mercedes glides past the beds of gold- and wine-coloured chrysanthemums that spruce up Toronto's business district in early fall. Quickly and discreetly it transports Gerry Schwartz from [...]

As someone known to hold a grudge, Jean Chretien would not normally be expected to look fondly upon anything Gerry Schwartz does. After all, only 10 years have elapsed since [...]

Gerry Schwartz adores cars. As a frizzy-haired 15-year-old in Winnipeg, Schwartz took apart and rebuilt a 1938 Plymouth -- although, the story goes, he discarded the body and just drove [...]

It seemed like a simple, last-minute, prenuptial task. Jim Pole and Nicole Pelletier from Thunder Bay, Ont., were to be wed on Aug. 21 in the lush Montreal suburb of [...]

Edmund Clark is accustomed to trouble. Clark, 51, a career civil servant and financial services manager, was once nicknamed 'Red Ed' for his role as one of the federal bureaucrats [...]

Gaston Rajakaruna is the epitome of a cautious investor. The Calgary accountant prides himself on making no rash moves; a federal civil servant, Rajakaruna says he has never bought anything [...]

Call it convergence. Bill Gates, in Toronto last fall for the first time in a couple of years, runs into Ted Rogers in the middle of the lobby of the [...]

Fredrik D'Arcy Eaton, 36-year-old son of Fredrik Eaton and great-great grandson of Eaton's founder Timothy, is in an awkward spot. Fred Jr., as he is known, is acutely aware of [...]

What's the first thing that pops into your mind when somebody mentions coal? You're allowed to say: not much. For most of us, coal belongs in old Loretta Lynn songs, [...]

Income trusts have long had their skeptics on Bay Street, but over the past couple of weeks critics of the asset class have gathered some juicy fodder. One target is [...]