T oday’s top stories from Report on Business : Competition Bureau challenges MLS rules The Competition Bureau is trying to strike down rules governing the multiple listing service, or MLS, system that’s used by most home sellers to list their properties. The MLS system includes information available only to members of the Canadian Real Estate Association, which is too restrictive, the bureau said in a statement today. The regulator also wants consumers to be able to pay a fee to list homes without being obliged to take a host of other services, which could lower the MLS fees, and negotiate property sales without using an agent

I ndustrial equipment supplier Toromont Industries Ltd. TIH-T said Monday its quarterly profit fell 36 per cent as the weak economy led to lower construction and natural gas drilling activity. The Concord, Ont.-based company said its earnings fell to $31.4-million, or 48 cents a share, for the fourth quarter, ended Dec

The Internet has changed trading in many ways. Internet trading has spread widely and fast, with investors unable to get enough of it.

These days I get that question a lot – what is the best bond fund for 2010? After the stock market volatility of 2008-09 people have realized that a portfolio needs to comprise of stocks and bonds.

The beginning Pillar Property Group investor often hears the terms market value and appraisal in the realm of the real estate industry. Each of these terms has unique meanings in the business, but they are not the true determinants of the acutal value of properties. We will concern ourselves with the latter term, appraisal

International money managers drawn to dividends have been gobbling up shares of U.S.-based companies over the past year, according to Moudy El-Khodr, co-manager of the ING Global Equity Dividend Fund Ticker:(IAGEX). The fund’s 42% weighting in U.S. stocks is nearly double the 22% weighting it held a year ago.

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