Global markets

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Nov. 19 (CNS Canada) – The Canadian dollar was down at market close Tuesday with the stock market. The loonie closed at US$0.7542 or US$1=C$1.3259, which compares with Monday’s close of US$0.7686 or C$1.3182. The S&P/TSX Composite Index closed at 14,877.00, down 194.01 points. Along with the TSX, the

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Nov. 20 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has endorsed the Brexit transition plan put forward by United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May. “We welcome the transition arrangements in the withdrawal

By Glen Hallick, Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Nov. 19 (CNS Canada) – Wheat bids in Western Canada were up for the week ended Nov. 16, as a weaker Canadian dollar supported prices. Average Canada Western Red Spring (13.5% CWRS) wheat prices were up, increasing by as much as C$3 per tonne, according to price

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Nov. 19 (CNS Canada) – The Canadian dollar is slightly down Monday morning. At 8:32 CST Monday morning the Canadian dollar was at US$0.7580 or C$1.3189, which compares with Friday’s North American close of US$0.7602 or C$1.3154. Oil prices Monday morning are slightly down. West Texas Intermediate crude this

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.

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

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

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

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

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