Securities industry posts improved 4th-quarter results

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The Canadian securities industry has posted total operating profits of C$1.3 billion in 1998, down by one-third from C$2.1 billion in both 1997 and 1996. Profit after taxes, bonus payments and dividents reached C$395 million during the year, down by 50% from C$769 million in 1997, while return on shareholders equity was 11%. For 1999, the industry is projected to reach the overall revenue and profit levels registered in 1994 or 1995.

Securities & Commodities Services, Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities, Securities industry

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Transcontinental posts 10% profit rise, boosts dividend

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The company sales report of printer and publisher, Transcontinental Inc. shows a profit of 10% rise than the corresponding time in the previous year. The company is planning to boost its quarterly dividend to 5.5 cents from 4.5 percent as the payment due in early May.

Forecasts, trends, outlooks, PRINTING AND PUBLISHING, Publishing, Publishing Industries, Printing & Publishing, Publishing industry, Company business forecast/projection, Company forecasts, Transcontinental Inc.

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Humpty Dumpty posts loss

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Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods Inc. posted a 921,000 Canadian dollar loss for the second quarter ending March 31, 2003. The company was hurt by increasingly high cooking oil prices.

Finance, Snack foods industry, Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods Inc.

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