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Nearly three years later, former Nissan executive Greg Kelly is still wondering why the questions that led to his arrest and trial in Japan weren’t simply taken up in the automaker’s corporate boardroom.
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Ex-Nissan exec Kelly wants boardroom, not criminal, trial

Twitter users sending each other money have a new — and Canadian — way of making the transfer.
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Wealthsimple Cash becomes first Canadian service integrated into Twitter’s Tip Jar

Stocks wobbled between small gains and losses in midday trading Thursday, as gains from technology stocks were kept in check by banks and energy companies slipping.
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Stocks wobble as commodity prices fall; Macy’s climbs

B. Wayne Hughes, the founder and chairman of Public Storage whose passion for horse racing culminated with a victory by Authentic in the 2020 Kentucky Derby and Breeders’ Cup Classic, died Wednesday. He was 87.
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Wayne Hughes, billionaire businessman and horse owner, dies

Mastercard is getting rid of magnetic stripes on its credit and debit cards over the next 10 years, part of a broader push from the company to use ‘more capable and secure’ alternatives to the old-fashioned swipe.
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Mastercard is getting rid of its credit cards’ magnetic stripes

Airbnb says it will ban people without a history of good reviews from renting entire homes in Canada for just one night this Halloween weekend.
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Airbnb rolls out restrictions on some one-night stays to curb Halloween partying

The swift fall of Afghanistan to Taliban fighters two decades after the United States invaded the country has triggered a political and humanitarian crisis. It’s also causing security experts to wonder: What’s going to happen to the country’s vast untapped mineral wealth?
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Taliban sitting on US trillion worth of minerals the world desperately needs

Stocks edged lower in afternoon trading Wednesday, a day after the S&P 500 had its biggest drop in four weeks and broke a five-day winning streak.
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Stocks edge lower as investors wait to hear from the U.S. Fed

Statistics Canada says the annual pace of inflation rose to 3.7 per cent in July, the biggest increase since May 2011.
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Annual pace of inflation hits 3.7 per cent in July, largest rise since 2011

A major Thai asphalt company has been implicated for money laundering in a criminal complaint against a Miami businessman accused of violating U.S. sanctions for doing maintenance work on Venezuela’s fleet of Russian fighter jets.
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Thai asphalt giant implicated in Venezuela sanctions case