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The annual pace of housing starts slowed in January. read more >>> Source : CTVNews.Ca

By Tomas Miller and Verónica Trujillo Tomas Miller joined the Multilateral Investment Fund in 2000 and heads its Access to Finance Unit, overseeing a loan and equity portfolio related to microfinance, venture capital, early-stage equity, small business financing, and financial services for low-income people. How are financial inclusion and productivity linked? And why are these […]

Consultancy Wood Mackenzie says Canadian oil producers are among the very few globally who have reduced output in the face of low oil prices. read more >>> Source : CTVNews.Ca

As markets reporters, our most important responsibility is to provide readers with some helpful context for what’s going on. This is particularly important during periods of heightened volatility like what we’ve been experiencing for the past few months. For this post, we’re going to skip the laundry list of reasons why stocks might be getting […]

LONDON, Feb 5 (Reuters) – Global markets have been in turmoil since the start of the year, with stocks and commodities prices reeling, eroding inflation and making central banks increasingly dovish… read more >>> Source : Reuters

Canada is signalling its willingness to re-engage with Iran by lifting the broad ban on financial services, imports and exports, Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion announces. read more >>> Source : CBC.Ca

OTTAWA, Feb 5 (Reuters) – The Canadian government said on Friday it was lifting some sanctions against Iran, including the broad ban on financial services, imports and exports, making Canadian companies more competitive against rivals doing business in Iran. read more >>> Source : Reuters

Romanian car manufacturer Dacia, which does not do business in the United States, has reimagined the owner’s manual by commissioning a group of artists to recreate the rather technical booklet as a work of art, prose, and poetry. Yes, poetry. About such topics as seat belt usage and tire changes. The illustrations are pretty cool […]

A devaluation of Saudi Arabia’s currency could cause such political instability that Riyadh has little choice but to stick to its promise to use vast foreign exchange reserves to defend the riyal’s 30-year-old peg to the U.S. dollar. Currency traders have been betting against the Saudi peg, and those of other regional oil producers, in […]

* Leniency gives hope to other nations (Adds quotes, details) read more >>> Source : Reuters

SHARES in the world’s biggest technology companies plunged in today’s trading, pointing towards what could be the start of another bursting bubble. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express

A few weeks ago I bought several pairs of socks. I needed socks. I’ve needed socks for quite some time. And so I thought I would capitalize on a a great sale. High quality, fun coloured socks for a mere $3.23. Cha. Ching. Except that’s not how the story ended. Those socks ended up costing […]

Public tenders can be great business opportunities for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and getting to know how they work is not that… read more >>> Source : EuroNews.Com

Egg Farmers of Canada says its members will no longer install any new cages and will begin an industry-wide transition to cage-free production facilities for its egg-producing hens. But the shift will take 20 years to complete. read more >>> Source : CBC.Ca

London Underground maintenance workers are planning a series of strikes in a dispute over safety. read more >>> Source : CTVNews.Ca

Anheuser-Busch unveils Super Bowl 50 Budweiser ad with get-pumped macho imagery and the iconic Clydesdales. read more >>> Source : CNN Money

Janet Yellen and Glenn Stevens speeches, US Crude Oil Inventories, Unemployment Claims, Retail Sales and Consumer Sentiment. These are the main market movers for this week. Here is an outlook on the main events on forex calendar. Last week yet another disappointment with a lower than expected monthly jobs report, showing a 151,000 gain, compared […]

The U.S. economy fumbled on job growth in January, but managed to move the ball somewhat on wage growth, making any Fed rate hike a likely game-time decision. read more >>> Source : BankRate.Com

A garage in London is set to be auctioned for $261,567 or more, as the escalation in real estate prices in the already expensive city continues. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com

The global economy seems trapped in a “death spiral” that could lead to further weakness in oil prices, recession and a bear market, Citi warns. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com

The company in charge of the trial of an experimental drug that left one person dead and others possibly brain damaged has been found to be at fault, the French Health Ministry said. A preliminary report found that the laboratory Biotrial failed to suspend the trial on Jan. 10 when one volunteer was hospitalized, and […]

Hi. I’m Cailen, and I’m a recovering perfectionist. Recovering in the sense that it’s my still my default mode, but I’m shining consciousness on it, creating space around it, and loosening my perfectionist death-grip. (Ugh. If I could only be better at letting go! That’s a perfectionist joke.) Perfectionism is rigid. Hard. Cold. It feels […]

Buffalo Wild Wings and Wingstop each expect to sell more than 10 million wings on Super Bowl Sunday. read more >>> Source : CNN Money

* State-buyer GASC says offer prices were too high * Traders say premium charged due to regulatory uncertainty * Egypt is world’s biggest importer of wheat (Recasts with tender cancellation) By Michael Hogan and Maha El Dahan HAMBURG/ABU DHABI, Feb 5 (Reuters) – Egypt cancelled a tender to buy wheat on Friday after receiving only […]

Private jets are expected to flock to the Bay Area for Super Bowl 50, making it one of the biggest private jet events of 2016. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com

After a day’s breather, the rupee today fell by 9 paise to 67.64 per dollar on fresh demand for the American currency from banks and importers. read more >>> Source : EconomicTimes.IndiaTimes.Com

SEOUL/TOKYO, Feb 5 (Reuters) – The United States has deployed missile defence systems that will work with the Japanese and South Korean militaries to track a rocket North Korea says it will launch some time over an 18-day period beginning Monday. read more >>> Source : Reuters

By Bruno Federowski SAO PAULO, Feb 5 (Reuters) – The Brazilian real seesawed on Friday as traders closed positions ahead of the local Carnaval holiday and digested a batch of mixed U.S. job data. The… read more >>> Source : Reuters

BRUTAL new tax rules are set to push hundreds of thousands of landlords to sell up this year, which could force up rents and make home ownership even harder, according to experts. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express

Navinder Sarao, the “flash crash” trader, should not be extradited to the United States because the offences he is accused of were not crimes in the UK, his lawyers said. read more >>> Source : BBC

Barclays economists got mixed signals from Friday’s jobs report. And now they think the Federal Reserve will raise rates only two times this year, replacing their previous call for three. The Fed expects to hike four times. On Friday, the January jobs report showed that the economy added 151,000 jobs while the unemployment rate fell […]

US shares dip after figures reveal the US economy created fewer new jobs than expected in January. read more >>> Source : BBC

The Digital Cookie program helps Girl Scouts learn about e-commerce and managing money. read more >>> Source : BankRate.Com

It is quite uncommon to see the US dollar rising across the board on a significantly worse than expected Non-Farm Payrolls. Jobs advanced by 151K, worse than 190K expected and well below the average of recent months. The dollar initially dropped, with EUR/USD reaching 1.1244, USD/JPY continuing its reversal of the BOJ move and other […]

The German automaker has delayed its annual earnings and shareholder meeting because it needs more time to calculate the cost of its diesel emissions scandal. read more >>> Source : CNN Money

Feb 5 (Reuters) – London Stock Exchange Group Plc’s (LSEG) interest rate derivatives joint venture, CurveGlobal, said it had appointed Andrew Ross as chief executive. read more >>> Source : Reuters

The Chicago Stock Exchange, founded more than a century ago, is being acquired by an investor group led by a Chinese company. read more >>> Source : CTVNews.Ca