Sears liquidation puts pressure on feds to protect workers’ pensions – Sudbury.com

OTTAWA Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains says the federal government will consider legislation to protect employees’ pensions when a company goes bankrupt. While there’s no plan for the government to introduce legislation at the moment, he says it will carefully examine two different private member’s bills on the subject, put forward by a New Democrat MP and a Bloc Quebecois…

Barclays 3Q profit rises following restructuring – Business Insider

LONDON (AP) Barclays says third-quarter earnings rose 32 percent as the London-based bank reported its first results since completing a post-financial crisis restructuring. Pre-tax profit increased to 1.11 billion pounds ($1.47 billion) from 837 million pounds. The bank, which shed riskier assets and sold its African business to focus on Britain and North America, said…