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Royal Bank of Canada raised its dividend as it reported a fourth-quarter profit of $3.9 billion, up from $3.2 billion in the same quarter last year.
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Royal Bank of Canada reports .9B Q4 profit, raises quarterly dividend 11 per cent

An Alabama sheriff says a FedEx Ground driver dumped packages into a ravine in the woods at least six times.
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Sheriff: FedEx driver dumped boxes in Alabama woods at least 6 times

Tourism businesses that were just finding their footing after nearly two years of devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic are being rattled again as countries throw up new barriers to travel in an effort to contain the Omicron variant.
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Omicron unravels travel industry’s plans for a comeback

Canada’s main stock index gained more than 300 points in late-morning trading led by gains in the energy and financial sectors as investors shook off worries about the latest COVID-19 variant and U.S. stock markets moved higher.
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Energy and financial sectors help lift S&P/TSX composite, U.S. stock markets up

It looks like Tesla’s Elon Musk isn’t the only high profile CEO getting rid of shares in the company they run. Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella has shed more than half of his stake in the software giant in the past week.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sells more than US5 million in Microsoft stock

A new report says droves of Canadian workers have experienced burnout during the pandemic and it’s causing at least 20 per cent to seek new jobs.
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Canadian workers facing burnout during the pandemic: Ceridian report

Scotiabank raised its quarterly dividend Tuesday as it reported a fourth-quarter profit that rose compared with a year ago and beat expectations.
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Scotiabank reports fourth-quarter profit up from year ago, raises dividend

Newly named Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has emerged from behind the scenes to take over one of Silicon Valley’s highest-profile and politically volatile jobs.
Source: ctv business
New Twitter CEO steps from behind the scenes to high profile

Consumer prices across the 19 countries that use the euro currency are rising at a record rate as a result of a huge spike in energy costs this year, official figures showed Tuesday.
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Inflation in 19 nations using euro hits record high of 4.9 per cent

Prince Edward Island’s potato board is taking the province’s spuds from the fields to the virtual realm in a new marketing campaign.
Source: ctv business
P.E.I. potato board launches immersive virtual reality campaign