Global markets

By Commodity News Services Canada WINNIPEG, Jan. 15 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – A war of words continues to brew between Canada and China following a Chinese court handing a Canadian the death sentence after being retried for drug smuggling on Monday. […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Jan. 14 (CNS Canada) – The Canadian dollar was down slightly at market close Monday in light of a dim forecast from JPMorgan Chase and Company. The dollar finished the day at US$0.7536 or US$1=C$1.3269, which compares with Friday’s close of US$0.7542 or C$1.3259. This year’s forecast for the […] Read more

By Commodity News Services Canada WINNIPEG, Jan. 14 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuffled his cabinet Monday morning following Treasury Board President Scott Brison’s announcement on Friday he was leaving politics. Trudeau moved Minister of Indigenous Affairs […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Jan. 11 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The United States consumer price index declined by 0.1 per cent in December, marking the first fall in nine months, according to a report from the country’s Labor Department. […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Jan. 10 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Election results in the Democratic Republic of Congo are being questioned after it was announced Thursday that opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi won the vote, held Dec. 30. Runner-up Martin […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Jan. 9, 2018 (CNS) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. Unionized workers at the General Motors assembly plant in Oshawa, Ont. are holding a work stoppage Wednesday morning after GM has confirmed it is closing the plant. Unifor president Jerry […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Jan. 8 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – United States President Donald Trump will hold a televised national address Tuesday evening in which he is expected to make his case for building a wall along the Mexico/U.S. […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Jan. 7 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Officials from China and the United States are meeting in Beijing this week for trade talks. While there were no major developments out of the negotiations yet, the fact […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Jan. 4, 2018 (CNS) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. The unemployment rate in Canada remained at its 43-year-low for December, according to new data from Statistics Canada. The economy added 9,300 new jobs with unemployment at 5.6 per cent. […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Jan. 3, 2018 (CNS) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. Cargill Inc. has reported a 20 per cent drop in its fiscal second-quarter 2019 net earnings, as global trade tensions, challenges in the Chinese hog sector and a struggling United […] Read more