Global markets

By Commodity News Service Canada Aug. 8 (CNS Canada) — The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Saudi Arabia is working to transfer home all Saudi patients in hospitals in Canada in retaliation for Ottawa urging Saudi to free human rights activists. Saudi Arabia has already frozen […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada Aug. 7 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. Rick Gates, an associate of United States President Donald Trump’s former campaign chair Paul Manafort testified that he did not report 15 bank accounts to the federal government at Manafort’s request. […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Aug 3, 2018 (CNS) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. Canada’s merchandise trade deficit lowered to C$626 million in June, down C$2.7 million from July, according to new data released by Statistics Canada. This was lower than forecasted following the […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada Aug. 2 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – United States President Donald Trump is reportedly considering increasing the tariffs on US$200 billion in Chinese imports to 25 per cent from 10. The president is trying to use tariffs […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada Aug. 1 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. A candidate for Toronto city council is launching legal action to delay the provincial government’s plan to reorganize the city’s wards. Rocco Achampong, a lawyer vying for councillor in Ward 13, […] Read more

WINNIPEG, July 31, 2018 (CNS) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. Canada’s economy grew at the fastest pace in a year, due to gains in the price of crude oil, according to new data from Statistics Canada. Gross domestic product rose by 0.5 per cent in […] Read more

By Dave Sims, Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, July 30 (CNS) – A merger between Nokia and T- Mobile is set to give the United States another giant player in the world of telecoms. T-Mobile had already agreed to a merger with Sprint earlier this year, as the two companies vied to compete with larger […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, July 27 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The United States gross domestic product increased at an annualized rate of 4.1 per cent in the second quarter of 2018, marking the fastest growth in four years, according […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada July 25 (CNS Canada) — The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – United States President Donald Trump pledged US$12 billion in aid to farmers hurt by the fallout of the U.S.-China trade war. Some Republican Senators and members of the House are […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada July 24 (CNS Canada) — The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Many residents of Toronto are questioning the safety of their own city following Sunday’s deadly random street shooting that killed two people and injured 13. The gunman was also killed. […] Read more