Global markets

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Jan. 2, 2018 (CNS) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. After what was the worst year for stocks since 2008, Canadian equity strategists are predicting double-digit gains for 2019. Predictions are placing the S&P/TSX Composite Index to end 2019 at