Canadian retail sales grew by a weaker-than-expected 0.3 percent in May, not enough to make up for the previous month's decline in further proof of lackluster growth in the second quarter, according...
Reuters
Posted on 7-24-2012 at 9:00 AM
United Parcel Service, the world's largest package delivery company, lowered its 2012 outlook on uncertain global economic conditions and said it will cut capacity in Asia following a drop in exports...
Reuters
Posted on 7-24-2012 at 8:36 AM
BEST OF BNN: Weak inflation figures mean the Bank of Canada has less of an impetus to quickly hike its benchmark interest rate, economists say.
Brady Yauch, BNN.ca staff
Posted on 7-20-2012 at 2:50 PM
Lenders are
facing mounting pressure to buy back bad mortgages they sold to
investors,
signaling that banks' home-loan headaches could continue for years.
Reuters
Posted on 7-20-2012 at 4:00 PM
Inflation climbed in June from a two-year low in May, but the weaker-than-expected report looked unlikely to spur the Bank of Canada to act any time soon on its warning that it could raise interest...
Reuters
Posted on 7-20-2012 at 9:00 AM
Fitch Ratings affirmed Italy's long-term sovereign debt rating at 'A-'
on Thursday, averting for now the threat of aggressive forced selling by
bond
traders if the country had lost its only remaining...
Reuters
Posted on 7-19-2012 at 3:48 PM
The slowdown in the U.S. economy persisted early in the third quarter
with factory activity in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region contracting in
July for a third
straight month and new claims for jobless...
Reuters
Posted on 7-19-2012 at 2:37 PM
Spain's five-year borrowing costs hit new euro-era highs at an auction
on Thursday while France paid less than 1 percent for similar bonds as
investors
increasingly marginalize southern economies...
Reuters
Posted on 7-19-2012 at 2:23 PM