Canada's Bank of Nova Scotia appears poised to take control of banks in Mexico and Argentina.

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Still, Mary Webb, of the Bank of Nova Scotia, thinks it will be three years before Ontario's books balance.

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The Bank of Nova Scotia opened a Jamaican branch in 1889.

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Beyond JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, PXP will be getting financing from BMO Capital Markets, Barclays, Citigroup, Royal Bank of Canada, and the Bank of Nova Scotia.

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Carlos Gomes, an economist at the Bank of Nova Scotia, another Toronto bank, expects that the car industry's output will shrink by 1-2% this year, after surging by 6% in 2002.

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According to the New York Mercantile Exchange, Scotia Mocatta -- the bullion and metals division of Bank of Nova Scotia -- was storing 11.8 tons of gold and 935.7 tons of silver.

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The Bank of England, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, Standard Chartered, the Bank of Nova Scotia, all of them recently got a request from Chavez asking that the gold he has stored with them be shipped home.

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But it is fascinating that more-or-less the entire Canadian financial establishment - including Toronto-Dominion, CIBC, Bank of Nova Scotia, Ontario Teachers' Pension Fund and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, among others - has grouped together to keep TMX Canadian.

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Mergers and acquisitions activity in the Gulf of Mexico will remain muted as companies assess the costs of slower permitting and tighter regulations, said Adrian Goodisman with Scotia Waterous, a Bank of Nova Scotia unit that has been involved in several large sales in the Gulf recently.

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