Global markets

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Dave Sims, Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, July 3 (CNS) – Computer maker Dell is going public again. The company announced it will offer tracking stock for common shares in a bid to cut its debt. Dell initially went private in 2013 after losing market share to Apple and Google’s Android devices. HTC has […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, June 29 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canada’s economy grew by 0.1 per cent in April, according to a report from Statistics Canada. The increase in gross domestic product beat trade expectations for a flat reading […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada June 28 (CNS Canada) — The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin plan to meet in Helsinki, Finland, July 16 in attempts to smooth over simmering relations between the two. The White House […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada June 27 (CNS Canada) – The Canadian dollar is being cushioned by rising oil prices as WTI crude climbed to US$71.55 per barrel this morning an increase of 1.43 per cent. Production stoppages at Syncrude facilities in Canada and supply disruptions from Venezuela have sparked the increase. However, the loonie […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada June 27 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Ottawa’s purchase of the Trans Mountain pipeline will add C$6.5 billion in unplanned spending to the federal deficit for the 2018-19 fiscal year, said a study by the Institute for […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada June 26 (CNS Canada) — The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Major stock indexes were mainly flat this morning but remained on edge following Monday’s steep decline in Canadian and U.S. markets with investors jittery about a looming trade war between […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, June 25 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Harley-Davidson will be shifting some of its production to overseas factories for motorcycles destined for the European Union. The move is to help alleviate the impact of EU tariffs […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Dave Sims, Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, June 22 (CNS) – The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries announced a hike in oil production Friday. The group met in Vienna where the issue of energy supply was front and centre. OPEC will release an additional one million barrels a day as part of the […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada June 21 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – United States President Donald Trump backed away from his tough stance of separating immigrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border following public outrage. Families will now be kept […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, June 20 (CNS Canada) — The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Pope Francis has criticized the United States policy of separating immigrant families trying to enter the U.S. through Mexico calling it “contrary to our Catholic values…”. U.S. President Donald […] Read more