Fresh off slapping a duty on Canadian lumber, President Trump is now making threats about dairy.
Western Canada’s natural gas producers won’t be as competitive as hoped.
Commodities benefit from a stronger economic outlook, but oil inventories remain high.
Commodities are expected to broadly benefit from rising prices in 2017, reveals a Scotiabank report. The Scotiabank commodity price index gained 6.2% month-over-month in December as a large gain in oil and gas complemented monthly gains in all other sub-indices. Prices for North American benchmark WTI have been moderately upgraded to average $58 per barrel […]
Mining companies are stronger now than they were at the beginning of the year, says PwC Canada’s new mining report. With fluctuating commodity prices, the top priorities for Canadian mining companies in 2017 are capital allocation, strategic deal making, and employing new technology and innovations for sustainability. Read: Not on top of ESG investing? Don’t […]
The Bank of Canada has released its 2016 autumn review. It offers details on: the role of central banks in financial stability; commodity-price super cycles; changes to the Bank’s emergency lending assistance policy; and the Bank’s market operations and liquidity provision. Read: PM tries to score billions from institutional investors In a section on emerging […]
These days, filling up at the pump is relatively cheap. But which country offers the lowest prices?
One of Belgium's regional governments has voted to reject the wide-ranging CETA trade deal between the European Union and Canada.
Business have told the BoC they're now seeing "a gradual bottoming out of the negative effects of the oil price shock."
The crude business has adjusted to a lower price paradigm