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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
The list of potential suitors for Hulu keeps getting longer. On Friday, Yahoo submitted a bid for the online video site co-owned by entertainment giants News Corp.
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.
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 ...
TORONTO--Canadian stocks closed modestly higher Friday, as telecom issues advanced and financials staged a late turnaround. The S&P/TSX Composite index rose 9.13 points, or 0.1%, to 12667.22, closing the week with a 0.4% gain.
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.
Trends
| Popular searches on Google | Change | Mkt Cap | |
| MBT | Manitoba Telecom Services | 5.70% | 2.29B |
| NKO | Niko Resources Ltd. | 22.70% | 516.09M |
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 |