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Dan Chan, with a B-plus average and only a few volunteering credentials, wasn’t optimistic when he applied for a $20,000 scholarship at Ryerson University. But he took the time to fill out a submission, highlighting his achievements, and received one of the awards for the 2010 year.
Nobody was more surprised than the recent MBA graduate, […]

ST. LOUIS

European Union finance ministers are debating a tax on financial transactions that would raise money for the EU and make banks share bailout burdens with taxpayers.
The tax would take a tiny fraction from a wide range of financial dealings and use the money to relieve member states’ membership contributions to the EU.
France and Germany support […]

The head of the International Monetary Fund called Thursday for bold and collective action to combat a slowing global economy and a worsening European debt crisis.
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde also said she welcomed President Barack Obama’s U.S. job-creation plan in light of the unemployment crisis in the United States.
Lagarde will preside at her first […]

A plan to distribute $13 million to consumers cheated by Wentzville-based US Fidelis could be tossed aside if a lawsuit against the bankrupt company’s largest creditor is successful, according to a memo filed with the bankruptcy court Friday by the creditor, Chicago-based Mepco Finance Corp.
The memo accompanies a motion to dismiss a suit filed Sept. […]

As parents pack up their kids to go off to university or college, some may wonder with borrowing costs near historic lows, if it makes more sense to buy rather than rent. For example, over four years, a bachelor apartment near the University of Toronto will cost about $36,000.

Staying in residence is also expensive […]

Fears that car buyers would stay away from dealerships in August never materialized.
Instead, Americans were lured by new models, cheaper financing and the need to replace aging cars. As a result, August sales rose 7.5 percent compared with the same month last year, according to Autodata Corp.
Most major automakers reported healthy sales increases in August, […]

Beijing on Friday confirmed a decision that prevents the Democratic Republic of Congo from being sued in Hong Kong courts in a case that raised issues about the Chinese territory’s autonomy.
The Standing Committee of China’s rubberstamp legislature, the National People’s Congress, says Hong Kong, like mainland China, is covered by absolute immunity _ meaning governments […]

JEFFERSON CITY

As students troop off to college this fall, parents with children of all ages have their heads spinning from a volatile investment year of troubling world and national events.
That makes it the perfect time for them to get their heads on straight. Early, regular investment in their children’s future, made just like a car or […]