Global markets

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Nov. 19 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a speech Monday that the country will continue to export oil despite sanctions put on by the United States. He described the U.S. […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Nov. 16 (CNS Canada) – The Canadian dollar is slightly up Friday morning. At 8:46 CST Friday morning the Canadian dollar was at US$0.7609 or C$1.3137, which compares with Thursday’s North American close of US$0.7575 or C$1.3202. Ontario Minister of Finance Victor Fedeli said yesterday in his Fall Economic […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Nov. 16, 2018 (CNS) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. Jason Kenny, leader of the United Conservative Party, and the biggest political rival to Alberta’s premier, has announced that he doesn’t support a government-mandated cut in crude production; instead he […] Read more

By Glen Hallick, Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, Nov. 16 (CNS) Phishing attacks, data theft and data manipulation are a few of the dangers producers, as well as, everyone else faces, when using digital technology. Two experts on the subject, Adrienne Ehrhardt of Michael Best and Friedrich LLP and Doug Tait of Thompson Dorfman Sweatman […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Nov. 15, 2018 (CNS) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. Canada Post has issued a “time-limited” contract offer to its employees to end the rotating strikes. The four-year offer includes an annual two per cent wage hike and signing bonuses […] Read more

By Commodity News Services Canada WINNIPEG, Nov. 14 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Calgarians voted no in a referendum Tuesday to the city placing a bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics Games. The no side received more than 56 per cent of […] Read more

By Commodity News Services Canada WINNIPEG, Nov. 13 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Little progress was made over the weekend in the Canada Post labour dispute, now in its fifth week, as rotating strikes continue across the country. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Nov. 9 (CNS Canada) – The Canadian dollar is down Friday morning and is under the 76 U.S. cent mark. At 8:51 CST Friday morning the Canadian dollar was at US$0.7577 or C$1.3191, which compares with Thursday’s North American close of US$0.7625 or C$1.3114. Oil prices Friday morning slipped […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Nov. 9 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline ran into another roadblock on Thursday, as a federal judge in Montana granted an injunction halting the project pending further environmental review from the […] Read more

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Nov. 8 (CNS Canada) – The Canadian dollar is slightly down Thursday morning. At 8:33 CST Thursday morning the Canadian dollar was at US$0.7631 or C$1.3101, which compares with Wednesday’s North American close of US$0.7636 or C$1.3096. Bombardier Inc. announced Thursday morning it was cutting 5,000 jobs as the […] Read more