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US, Mexico and Canada sign new trade deal

The signing event and the leaders' remarks are being livestreamed. "Uncertainty that would only have got worse if we had not reached a new NAFTA". Addressin...

Stocks markets surge on hint of slower rate hikes

US President Donald Trump has openly criticised Mr Powell for his leadership of the Fed, despite selecting him for the job. Trump on Tuesday again blasted his...

Trump's mixed signals on trade war keep markets on edge

Trump said that the next round of Chinese tariffs will be on consumer electronics coming in from the country. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he had seen...

WTI oil price slides under $50 per barrel

Alberta is working to buy rail cars to help ship more crude as pipeline bottlenecks have the oil-rich province grappling with historic low prices. While oversu...

Trump tests presidential limits by threat to General Motors

Other agencies have received similar instructions, the person said . "They're all coming back", Trump assured supporters. Shares fell as much as 3.8 percent, w...

Alastair Campbell Tells Corbyn: "You Can’t End Austerity And Have Brexit"

Labour edged closer to a second referendum at its party conference in September, with Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer declaring that one option on any b...

Trump sends mixed messages on tariff negotiations with China

While the Putin meeting now appears off, Trump is still slated to sit down with President Xi Jinping on the G20 margins to press for wholesale reform of the w...

Facebook ex-employee accuses company of 'black people problem'

In technical roles, that drops to 1 percent. He added that he believed black people remained underrepresented at the company. Diversity and inclusion had ...

Microsoft shortly passed Apple as the most valuable American company

Amazon and Google have both been top dog at different times, but yesterday's announcement of a market value for Microsoft of $813bn sees Satya Nadella's reb...

Deutsche Bank DBK share price falls as offices raided by police

Deutsche Bank said it was "fully cooperating" with the authorities on the case which it said was "related to the Panama Papers ". The investigation is separ...

Bitcoin Futures To Be Launched By Nasdaq

According to one source, Nasdaq's futures will be based off Bitcoin's price on several spot exchanges, as compiled by VanEck . The news implies that th...

Local GM plants not shutting down

Production at the plant in Oshawa, Ontario fell to about 148,000 vehicles a year ago from a peak of 940,000 in 2003, a drop of about 85 per cent, according to D...

Cryptocurrencies hit hard as Ethereum falls to 16-month low

BCH now has a market cap of around $3.5 billion. Though advancing at a good pace, XRP has a long way to go in overcoming the $75 billion market gap that st...

Intermediate bounce in oil price likely: Abhishek Deshpande of JPMorgan

On the other hand, reduced prices will mean more trouble for the energy companies, which are a big driver in the national output. A fall of that magnitude wou...

Trump expresses more displeasure with Fed chairman

After Powell's Wednesday remarks, the market soared to a more-than 600 point gain on the day. "I am pleased to say that our economy is now close to both of thos...

Montreal postal workers back to work after last-minute strike

Newfoundland time. And independent Sen. Murray Sinclair, a former judge, is poised to propose an amendment that would keep the legislation from kicking in for...

'DIRE CONSEQUENCES' Trump poised for China trade war showdown at G20

It paves the way for the existing 10% USA import tariff on $200bn (£158bn) of Chinese goods to increase to 25% from 1 January. The US stockmarket shivered and...

Pub jobs up despite rise in closures in past decade

There are now around 15 more pubs in York than in 2001. "This is 12.5% higher than in 2001". More than 11,000 pubs have closed, with around 39,000 remaining...

Trump threatens to cut GM's federal subsidies over layoffs

GM said more than 14,000 jobs in the USA and Canada were being slashed, the majority being white collar workers and others of factory workers. As well as Detr...

Microsoft briefly tops Apple as most valuable company

Buoyed by a broad rebound in US stocks on Monday, Microsoft jumped 3.11 per cent to $106.28, pushing its market capitalization up to a record $816-billion at mi...

Malfunctioning ATM spits out $100 bills instead of $20 bills

As a long line formed, deputies showed up and dispersed the crowd and shut the ATM down. According to authorities, the Harris County Sheriff's Office was tipp...

General Motors To Close Ohio Plant, Thousands Affected

Trump's aggressive trade policies have been aimed specifically at saving United States manufacturing jobs, including the renegotiation of the North American Fre...

Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn denies salary fraud charges

Nissan removed Ghosn at a high stakes board meeting on Thursday after allegations of understating his income and using company money for personal use. Its curr...

Logitech's Plantronics acquisition dead on arrival

Plantronics officials confirmed on Sunday they're no longer engaged in discussions with Logitech regarding a potential pairing. A number of equities analyst...

GM reportedly closing all Oshawa, Ont. operations

The US$6-billion in savings includes cost reductions of US$4.5 billion and lower capital expenditure annually of nearly US$1.5 billion, GM said . Prime Minis...

Christmas tree farmers get ready for the holidays

Some Canadian farms in New Brunswick are buried under snow from recent storms, making it hard for them to get trees onto trucks for shipment. "Most all of them ...

GM to close plant in Ontario, eliminating 2,500 jobs

A federal official later told The Globe and Mail that the government will be examining the impact of the closing and what measures it might take to help laid ...

Musk considers move to Mars despite ‘good chance of death’

Today, the USA pays $81 million per seat in Russian Soyuz spacecraft - the only option of getting humans into space at the moment. He also rejected claims tha...

Here Are The Best Cyber Monday Deals On Electronics

Shoppers spent $6.22 billion online, up from 23.6% previous year, according to Adobe Analytics . Click to add it to your cart and enter promo code BF18 at chec...

Bitcoin fell below $ 4,000

The Bitcoin price is now sitting at a 14-month low not seen since September 2017 and is down a whopping 30 percent in just the past week. The recovery broug...

Ghosn denies financial misconduct allegations, report says

Carlos Ghosn , the former chairman of Nissan , has denied allegations of financial misconduct, according to Japanese media. Prosecutors accuse Mr Ghosn and f...

Liberals pass fast tracking motion on Canada Post back to work bill

Mike Palecek, president of CUPW, called it "unconscionable" that a government that professes to champion workers' rights would table this bill. That said, Haj...

Winter Weather Advisory: Up to 8 Inches Of Snow Expected In Parts

The National Weather Service said that the winter storm is expected to bring near-blizzard conditions from the Central Plains into the Great Lakes, impacting ...

Louisiana couple finds lottery ticket worth $1.8 million while cleaning for Thanksgiving

Theirs was the only winning ticket. Harold and Tina Ehrenberg, a couple from Mandeville, Louisiana, were cleaning up for Thanksgiving guests when they found...

Referendum deadline extended to December 7

The extension comes as his agency reported that 29.7 per cent of registered voters had returned their ballots already, with almost two-in-10 of the total having...