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Royal Bank releases supplier code of conduct after outsourcing backlash
TORONTO - The Royal Bank, which faced fierce backlash earlier this year over an outsourcing arrangement with a supplier that used temporary foreign workers, said Friday it won't send work offshore just to save on salaries.
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Top stories
Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. agreed to sell its Allstream business services unit to Accelero Capital Holdings, a firm co-founded by Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, for $520 million Canadian.
U.S. stocks recovered from early losses as investors weighed prospects for economic growth and Federal Reserve stimulus measures. Procter & Gamble Co.
EDMONTON - Kinder Morgan Canada has taken the next step in its plan to almost triple the capacity of its Trans Mountain oil pipeline from Alberta to Burnaby, B.C.. The corporation has filed a formal description of the proposed $5.4 billion, 1,150 ...
The federal government is threatening "retaliatory measures" against the United States in a dispute over meat-labelling rules that Ottawa and the World Trade Organization consider discriminatory.
With peak vacation season set to kick off, a U.S.-based economic policy think tank has sobering news for Canadians. Among the 21 affluent nations studied by the Center for Economic Policy and Research, Canada ranked third-worst in terms of legally ...
Trends
| Popular searches on Google | Change | Mkt Cap | |
| MBT | Manitoba Telecom Services | 5.17% | 2.28B |
| NKO | Niko Resources Ltd. | 24.87% | 525.22M |
Bank of Canada daily digest
| Money markets | Change | |
| Overnight rate | 1.00% | +0.0009 |
| 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 | 2.39% | +0.0100 |
| Prime business rate | 3.00% | 0.00 |
| Conventional mortgage, 5 yrs | 5.14% | 0.00 |