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On CTVNews.ca, Chief Financial Commentator Pattie Lovett-Reid offers advice for potential homebuyers who can’t decide between a fixer-upper or a move-in ready house. Which makes most sense for you?
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Pattie Lovett-Reid: Fixer-upper or move-in ready, which makes most sense for you?

Stocks are slightly lower Thursday, pulled down by banks and technology companies. Investors continue to focus on individual companies as the quarterly earnings reporting season rolls on.
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Stocks open lower on Wall Street, led by banks and tech

The chief executive of Rogers Communications Inc. said Wednesday that he and his team are ‘deeply disappointed’ by the widespread outage that affected many of its wireless customers this week.
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Rogers CEO ‘deeply disappointed’ software upgrade caused wireless outage

France will impose new entry restrictions on travellers from India to fight a contagious coronavirus variant spreading in that country, an official said Wednesday.
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France to impose entry restrictions on travellers from India

Beam Suntory, producer of top-selling Jim Beam and Maker’s Mark, both crafted in Kentucky, said Wednesday it wants to cut its companywide greenhouse gas emissions and water usage in half by 2030.
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Behind production of a top-selling bourbon, push to go green

The former top distiller at Jack Daniel’s announced on Tuesday that he and several partners are opening a new whiskey distillery near the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee.
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Ex-Jack Daniel’s distiller to make new whiskey in Tennessee

Netflix’s pandemic-fuelled subscriber growth is slowing far faster than anticipated as people who have been cooped at home are able to get out and do other things again.
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Netflix’s subscriber growth, stock zapped as pandemic eases

The annual pace of inflation jumped higher in March due in large part to a plunge in prices a year ago at the start of the pandemic.
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Annual pace of inflation leaps higher in March: StatCan

Australia on Wednesday cancelled four bilateral deals with China, Iran and Syria under new laws that give the federal government power to overrule international agreements by lower-level administrations that violate the national interest.
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Australia ends Chinese deals on national interest grounds

Metro Inc. is pressing ahead with technology upgrades despite the pandemic, with the food retailer planning to roll out more self-checkout machines, electronic shelf-labels and new automated distribution centres in the coming months.
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Grocery and drugstore retailer Metro pushes ahead with tech upgrades despite pandemic