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| CAC 40 | 3,969.78 | -81.33 (-2.01%) |
| S&P/ASX 200 | 5,062.40 | -103.00 (-1.99%) |
| BSE Sensex | 19,738.24 | -324.00 (-1.61%) |
| KOSPI | 1,969.19 | -24.64 (-1.24%) |
US House's Keystone bill aimed at wresting control of project from Obama
The U.S. House of Representatives has turned up the political heat on the Obama administration over the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, passing a bill Wednesday that would grant approval for the project.
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Top stories
By Richard Hubbard. LONDON | Thu May 23, 2013 3:33am EDT. LONDON (Reuters) - Concerns over the future of the U.S. Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus and weak Chinese factory data sent shares sharply lower and safe haven currencies like the yen ...
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Governments don't usually pursue policies that choke off growth or eliminate jobs. Looks like the Canadian government, though, didn't get the memo.
Slower traffic could actually speed up the daily commute in Calgary, researchers at the University of Calgary say. �The idea is to slow down traffic in a way that maintains the freeways operating close to their capacity,� said Lina Kattan, director of a new traffic ...
Two Toronto-area developers offered up preliminary details of a new highrise planned to tower over all of downtown Winnipeg as the province's highest building.
Trends
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| DI.UN | Dundee International Real Estate Inves | -0.19% | 776.96M |
Bank of Canada daily digest
| Money markets | Change | |
| Overnight rate | 1.00% | -0.0019 |
| Corporate paper, 1 month | 1.12% | 0.00 |
| Treasury bill, 1 month | 0.950% | 0.00 |
| Inflation | ||
| Total consumer price index | 0.400% | -0.6000 |
| Interest rates | ||
| 10 year bond | 2.34% | 0.00 |
| Prime business rate | 3.00% | 0.00 |
| Conventional mortgage, 5 yrs | 5.14% | 0.00 |