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Canadian inflation will remain above 3 percent for now, surpassing the central bank's target range, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said on Monday, but he gave no further clues on the timing of possible rate hikes. Sharp increases in energy prices and added provincial sales taxes were...

Canadian inflation will remain above 3 percent for now, surpassing the central bank's target range, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said on Monday, but he gave no further clues on the timing of possible rate hikes. Sharp increases in energy prices and added provincial sales taxes were...

U.S. regulators gave major banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co the green light on Friday to boost dividends, loosening the reins on the industry 2-1/2 years after the government bailed out the financial system. The strongest banks, including JPMorgan, are entitled to raise dividends and buy...

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) – Anonymous, a hacker group sympathetic to WikiLeaks, released on Monday emails that it obtained from someone who said he is a former Bank of America Corp employee. In the emails dating from November 2010, people that appear to be employees of a Balboa...

Bank Of America E-Mail Leaks Are Here, How Much Will They Hurt? Mar. 14 2011 - 2:10 am By HALAH TOURYALAI This morning, hacker group Anonymous went after Bank of America by releasing e-mails said to reveal “corruption and fraud” at the largest U.S. bank. The emails, which were being teased...

Bank Of America E-Mail Leaks Are Here, How Much Will They Hurt? Mar. 14 2011 - 2:10 am By HALAH TOURYALAI This morning, hacker group Anonymous went after Bank of America by releasing e-mails said to reveal “corruption and fraud” at the largest U.S. bank. The emails, which were being teased...

-- In the face of an "uneven" economic recovery, members of the G20 meeting in Paris agreed Saturday that the international monetary system has proven "resilient, but vulnerabilities remain." Delegates at the meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors cited in a communique issued...

Mark Pollard went into an Amherst, N.S., bank to install a photocopier and came out with a bank robber. Pollard stopped by the TD Canada Trust on Tuesday morning to install the new photocopier. He was on his way out with the old machine when a teller stopped him and alerted him to the robbery...

-- The Bangladeshi government has called on Nobel laureate and microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus to retire from the bank he founded nearly three decades ago to help the poor, but he has said no. "It's not possible, and if I withdraw myself from Grameen Bank, it'll collapse," Yunus said...

-- Egypt's new government on Sunday ordered banks closed for the next two days after protests by National Bank workers apparently drove out the head of the institution. The chairman of the National Bank of Egypt, Tarek Amer, told employees via e-mail that he submitted his resignation on Sunday...

Kevin Spacey wants to introduce the moviegoing world to the human side of Wall Street bankers in his new film, "Margin Call," screening at the Berlin film festival on Friday. The debut feature film from director J.C. Chandor features Spacey as a senior investment bank...

Police charged an Ottawa man in connection with a string of bank robberies in eastern Ontario dating back to last summer. The Pembroke Police Force arrested the 41-year-old suspect Wednesday in connection with a robbery the day before in the area. After the arrest, Ontario Provincial Police...

A Lebanese bank with links to Canada is being accused by U.S. law enforcement agencies of laundering hundreds of millions of dollars every month for an international drug ring with ties to Hezbollah. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Treasury alleged Thursday that the...

A man with a gun went into a bank and demanded their money. Once he was given the money, he turned to a customer and asked, 'Did you see me rob this bank?' The man replied, 'Yes sir, I did.' The robber then shot him in the temple, killing him instantly. He then turned to a couple standing...

Franklin Gladue was arrested Friday in a series of rural Alberta bank robberies. Three males and one female were taken into custody Friday in a string of armed robberies in rural Alberta. Franklin William Gladue, 34, was among those arrested in Edmonton's Beverly neighbourhood, RCMP spokesman...

Police in Austria are hunting a gunman who robs banks wearing a rubber mask of US President Barack Obama - but speaks very much like a local. The "Obama Robber" struck in the town of Handenberg on Thursday, robbing his sixth bank in the River Inn region since 2008, police say. His stick-up...

A woman in her 60s was killed after the car she was driving in with two children collided with a pickup truck on Bank Street Friday. The collision happened around 12:15 p.m. at the intersection of Bank Street and Conroy Road, south of Hunt Club Road. When firefighting crews arrived on scene...

NEW YORK -JPMorgan Chase said Friday that fourth-quarter net income jumped 47 percent as the company was able to set aside less money to cover loan losses. The New York bank earned $4.83 billion, or $1.12 per share. That compares with $3.28 billion, or 74 cents a share, during the same quarter...

JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N) could pay an annual dividend of 75 cents to a dollar once the Federal Reserve completes stress tests of the largest U.S. banks and gives its approval, Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said on Tuesday. The bank could raise its dividend as soon as the second quarter 2011...

Bank robber A hooded robber burst into a Texas bank and forced the tellers to load a sack full of cash. On his way out the door, a brave Texas customer grabbed the hood and pulled it off revealing the robber’s face. The robber shot the customer without a moment’s hesitation. He then...