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By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Oct. 26 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The United States gross domestic product increased by an annualized rate of 3.5 per cent during the third quarter. That was down from the 4.2 per cent growth the […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada Oct. 25 (CNS Canada) — The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Officials in the United States are concerned more package bombs may yet exist and are trying to track down one addressed to former Vice-President Joe Biden. Yesterday Barack and Michelle […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Oct. 23 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan is calling for an independent investigation into the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Speaking to members of his party in Parliament, Erdogan also said there […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Oct. 22 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The 50,000 Canada Post employees represented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers have begun rotating strikes at a number of cities, with Halifax, Windsor, Edmonton, and Victoria all […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Oct. 19 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canada’s annual rate of inflation slowed to 2.2 per cent in September, from 2.8 per cent the previous month, according to a report from Statistics Canada. The decline came […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Oct. 18 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. With mid-term elections in the United States three weeks away on Nov. 6, President Donald Trump has made one thing clear. If the Republican party loses control of Congress, either the House […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Oct. 17 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Ian Power became the first person to legally buy recreational cannabis in Canada shortly after 12 a.m. at a cannabis shop in St. John’s N.L. Today marks the legalization of cannabis […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada Oct. 16 (CNS Canada) — The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Cannabis becomes legal in Canada tomorrow and retailers are bracing for a surge in demand. Online sales sites begin in many jurisdictions at 12:01 a.m. Oct. 17. A recent Deloitte […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Oct. 15 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Less than a year after the doors at Sears Canada were shuttered, Sears in the United States has filed for bankruptcy protection. The number of stores has already been […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Oct. 12 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Former Canadian Governor General Michaëlle Jean has lost her bid for a second term as secretary general of la Francophonie. Member nations of the international organization of French speaking […] Read more