Global markets

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada Aug. 1 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. A candidate for Toronto city council is launching legal action to delay the provincial government’s plan to reorganize the city’s wards. Rocco Achampong, a lawyer vying for councillor in Ward 13, […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute WINNIPEG, July 31, 2018 (CNS) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. Canada’s economy grew at the fastest pace in a year, due to gains in the price of crude oil, according to new data from Statistics Canada. Gross domestic product rose by 0.5 per cent in […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Dave Sims, Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, July 30 (CNS) – A merger between Nokia and T- Mobile is set to give the United States another giant player in the world of telecoms. T-Mobile had already agreed to a merger with Sprint earlier this year, as the two companies vied to compete with larger […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, July 27 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The United States gross domestic product increased at an annualized rate of 4.1 per cent in the second quarter of 2018, marking the fastest growth in four years, according […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada July 25 (CNS Canada) — The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – United States President Donald Trump pledged US$12 billion in aid to farmers hurt by the fallout of the U.S.-China trade war. Some Republican Senators and members of the House are […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada July 24 (CNS Canada) — The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Many residents of Toronto are questioning the safety of their own city following Sunday’s deadly random street shooting that killed two people and injured 13. The gunman was also killed. […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Dave Sims, Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, July 23 (CNS) – A major drilling project on Canada’s east coast has been given the go-ahead to resume operations just a month after spilling thousands of litres of oil into the ocean. The incident occurred in June and sparked an investigation into the incident. Nova Scotia’s […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, July 20 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canada’s annual rate of inflation climbed to 2.5 per cent in June, marking the largest reading in more than six years, according to data released by Statistics Canada. – […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada July 19 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuffled his cabinet, in a move designed to freshen the Liberal look ahead of 2019 election. A Nanos Research poll released just before the shuffle show the […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada July 18 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to shuffle his cabinet later this morning. Questions are being raised about whether Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay will retain his post amid speculation that he […] Read more