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| KOSPI | 1,973.45 | +4.26 (0.22%) |
Royal Bank pledges not to outsource jobs for savings alone
Royal Bank has promised it will never outsource a Canadian job to a foreign worker solely to save money. The bank updated its code of conduct on Friday, after facing intense criticism last month for its hiring policies.
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Top stories
TORONTO -- The Toronto Stock Exchange dipped slightly Friday, pulled down by declines in most sectors, particularly gold, but balanced by a 13 per cent boost in shares of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International.
Canadian stocks were little changed, erasing earlier losses of as much as 0.3 percent, as a slump in energy and gold producers offset a surge in Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. Encana Corp.
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 ...
TORONTO�National Bank of Canada, the sixth-largest bank in Canada, raised its quarterly dividend Friday after reporting a 22% decline in second-quarter earnings reflecting last year's sale of its asset management unit.
Trends
| Popular searches on Google | Change | Mkt Cap | |
| MBT | Manitoba Telecom Services | 5.39% | 2.28B |
| NKO | Niko Resources Ltd. | 23.37% | 518.90M |
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 |