Global Markets: Group rallying food companies to cut antibiotics

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Dec. 14, 2017 (CNS) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) is calling on American food companies, McDonald’s Corp, Denny’s Corp and Sanderson Farms Inc to stop buying or producing meat raised with antibiotics.

Global Markets: Agrium to buy Australian fertilizer business

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Dec. 13, 2017 (CNS) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. Global commodity trader Louis Dreyfus Company agreed Tuesday to sell its Macrofertil Australia Pty Ltd to Agrium’s Australian unit Landmark Operations Ltd. Earlier this year Louis Dreyfus agreed to sell


Global Markets: Canadians affected by Uber data breach

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Dec. 12, 2017 (CNS) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. More than 800,000 Canadian riders and drivers may have been affected as part of Uber’s worldwide data breach announced last month. The disclosure came the same day the federal privacy



Global Markets: Britain clears hurdle to begin Brexit

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Dec. 8 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Britain has reached a deal with the European Commission that will enable Brexit talks to proceed. British Prime Minister Theresa May wrapped up urgent negotiations with European commission president

Global Markets: General Electric Cuts 12,000 Jobs

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Dec. 7 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – General Electric is slashing 12,000 jobs in a bid to make itself more nimble and cost-effective. The move is also part of a larger push by the company to


Global Markets: Canada to buy used Australian fighter jets

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Dec. 6, 2017 (CNS) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. Canada has scrapped its plan to buy 18 Boeing Co. Super Horner fighter jets amid a deepening dispute with the United States aerospace company. Instead the federal government is expected

Global Markets: BMO takes insurance hit

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Dec. 5 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – One of Canada’s largest banks took a hit during hurricane season in the U.S. Bank of Montreal recorded smaller profits in the most recent quarter following declines in its


Global Markets: Venezuela to create cryptocurrency

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Dec. 4 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Venezuela is planning to use cryptocurrency to deal with crippling international sanctions. President Nicolas Maduro says his country is making the move to get around the financial sanctions imposed

Global Markets: Canada unemployment rate lowest since 2008

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Dec. 1, 2017 (CNS) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. Hiring in Canada unexpectedly surged in November, sending the unemployment rate tumbling to a more than nine-year low, according to data released from Statistics Canada Friday. The unemployment rate dropped