Global markets

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Jan. 10, 2018 (CNS) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. Canada has launched a wide-ranging trade dispute against the United States, challenging Washington’s use of anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties, Canada said in a World Trade Organization filing dated Dec. 20 […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Jan. 9, 2018 (CNS) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. United States President Donald Trump told farmers in Tennessee at the American Farm Bureau’s annual convention on Monday he supports crop insurance, signaling a possible shift from his proposals last […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Jan. 8, 2018 (CNS) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. BNN announced Monday morning it will rebrand to BNN Bloomberg as of this spring. Bell Media (who owns BNN) and Bloomberg Media said the BNN channel and its digital properties […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Jan. 5 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canada’s unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in more than four decades, hitting 5.7 per cent in December, according to Statistics Canada data going back to 1976. – […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Jan. 4 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canadian gasoline prices are forecast to climb to their highest levels in four years in 2018, according to a report from GasBuddy. However, the actual prices seen at the […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Jan. 3 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – North Korea has reopened a hotline on the border with South Korea for the first time in two years, as the two countries move closer to negotiations despite the […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Jan. 2 (CNS Canada) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – North and South Korea are both open to talks that could help ease escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un also said North Korea […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Dec. 29, 2017 (CNS) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. Apple has apologized for slowing down older iPhone models. In a posting on its website Thursday, Apple apologized over its handling of the battery issue and said it would make […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Dec. 28, 2017 (CNS) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. The Alberta government has charged Nexen Energy with eight charges, after two workers died in an explosion at its Long Lake oil sands plant in early 2016. The charges were […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Dec. 27, 2017 (CNS) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. Airbus is drawing up contingency plans to phase out production of the world’s largest jetliner, the A380 superjumbo, if it fails to win a key order from United Arab Emirates, […] Read more