World markets
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| KOSPI | 1,986.81 | +15.55 (0.79%) |
Three ways to profit from our falling dollar
It wasn't long ago that the Canadian dollar was one of the world's most robust currencies, and that exposure to the weak U.S.
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Top stories
TORONTO - The Toronto Stock Exchange surged ahead Friday, encouraged by gains from the U.S. markets, after data showed the world's largest economy may be in recovery.
The dollar traded near the strongest in more than six weeks against the euro amid bets the Federal Reserve will slow asset purchases on signs the world's biggest economy is accelerating.
SASKATOON - Canada's food watchdog is planning to impose tougher rules to deal with the threat of E. coli in slaughterhouses. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency will strengthen E. coli testing in federally inspected ...
A controversial application to open a coal mine in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island has been rejected as inadequate by the B.C.
Scott Mills of JukeboxPrint.com says someone's been mailing drug packages using the company's name. Photograph by: Arlen Redekop, PNG , Sunday Province.
Trends
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| DI.UN | Dundee International Real Estate Inves | -2.55% | 774.79M |
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% | +0.0100 |
| Inflation | ||
| Total consumer price index | 0.400% | -0.6000 |
| Interest rates | ||
| 10 year bond | 2.31% | -0.0400 |
| Prime business rate | 3.00% | 0.00 |
| Conventional mortgage, 5 yrs | 5.14% | 0.00 |