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Lack of investment is a 'big part' of Canada's productivity slowdown — and it could get worse

Updated 17 hours ago |5 min read

"Our lagging productivity and stalled GDP growth mean Canadians are becoming collectively poorer and working harder to just remain where they are today," Perrin Beatty, chief executive of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, said following the release of budget 2024.

N.S. wants details on Ottawa’s budget promises, finance minister worried about growing federal debt

Updated a day ago |4 min read

Finance Minister Allan MacMaster answers questions from reporters about the provincial budget at One Government Place on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024.
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HALIFAX RETALES: Danielle Latour tapping the Korean rice beverage market

Updated Apr. 15, 2024 |3 min read

Crab deal will pay dividends this year and pave way for longer-term stability, says union president

Updated a day ago |7 min read

Cultural care: New long-term care facility opens in Eskasoni

Updated 34 minutes ago |8 min read

The Art Deco facade of the original Toronto Stock Exchange building is seen on Bay Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada January 23, 2019.

TSX set for muted start as falling oil counters gold gains

Reuters |Updated 5 minutes ago |2 min read

(Reuters) - Futures for Canada's main stock index were muted on Thursday as gains in metal prices were offset by declines in oil, while investors awaited fresh cues on the timing of interest rate cuts by central banks. June futures on the ...

Signage is seen outside the Blackstone Group headquarters in New York City, U.S., January 18, 2023.

Blackstone reports 1% rise in first-quarter earnings

Chibuike Oguh |Updated 7 minutes ago |2 min read

By Chibuike Oguh NEW YORK (Reuters) - Blackstone Inc, the world's largest private equity firm, said on Thursday that its first-quarter distributable earnings rose 1% year-on-year supported by growth in fee-related earnings that was partly offset ...

Google terminates 28 employees for protest of Israeli cloud contract

Reuters |Updated 17 minutes ago |2 min read

(Reuters) - Google said on Thursday it had terminated 28 employees after some staff participated in protests against the company's cloud contract with the Israeli government. The Alphabet unit said a small number of protesting employees entered ...

U.S. Dollar banknote is seen in this illustration taken July 17, 2022.

Dollar's dominant reserve currency status to endure, says Morgan Stanley

Reuters |Updated 27 minutes ago |1 min read

LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar's dominant reserve currency status is likely to endure partly because credible challengers, including the Chinese yuan, are lacking, Morgan Stanley said in a report on Thursday. Concerns about a surge in U.S.

A house under construction is seen at Hawthorne Estates by D. R. Horton in Medford, New Jersey, U.S., May 23, 2022.

U.S. homebuilder D.R. Horton profit rises on tight housing supply

Reuters |Updated 7 minutes ago |1 min read

(Reuters) - D.R. Horton posted a rise in quarterly profit on Thursday, as tight housing supply in the United States lifted home sales. Net income for the largest U.S. homebuilder in the second quarter ended March rose to $1.2 billion, or $3.52 ...

Bank of Spain Governor Pablo Hernandez de Cos, speaks during the HKMA-BIS High-Level Conference in Hong Kong, China November 28, 2023.

Basel Chair urges banks to fully implement capital rules as soon as possible

Reuters |Updated 56 minutes ago |2 min read

MADRID (Reuters) - Basel Committee Chair Pablo Hernandez De Cos on Thursday urged banks to fully implement the so-called Basel III international capital rules "as soon as possible" across jurisdictions to ensure financial stability. The Basel ...

A tractor is silhouetted after harvesting soybeans at a farm in Caaguazu, Paraguay February 17, 2020.

Analysis-Paraguay on track for record soy crop, but low river levels slow exports

Daniela Desantis, Lucinda Elliott |Updated 56 minutes ago |3 min read

By Daniela Desantis and Lucinda Elliott ASUNCION (Reuters) - Paraguay is headed for a record soybean harvest but exporters are worried about low river levels that are slowing shipments along the key Paraguay-Paraná waterway, with a drought in ...

The BYD EV Dolphin Mini is displayed as the Chinese electric-vehicle producer announces the launch of the low-cost EV in Mexico City, Mexico February 28, 2024.

Exclusive-Mexico, facing US pressure, will halt incentives to Chinese EV makers

Diego Oré |Updated 57 minutes ago |5 min read

By Diego Oré MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's federal government, under pressure from the U.S., is keeping Chinese automakers at arm's length by refusing to offer such incentives as low-cost public land or tax cuts for investment in EV ...

Atiele Santos, of the Karipuna indigenous people, prepares flour at the Ahuma village, near the mouth of the Amazon in Oiapoque, State of Amapa, Brazil March 22, 2024.

Brazil's plans to drill for oil in the Amazon hit stiff Indigenous resistance

Fabio Teixeira, Marta Nogueira |Updated 57 minutes ago |6 min read

By Marta Nogueira and Fabio Teixeira OIAPOQUE, Brazil (Reuters) - State-run energy firm Petrobras has hit growing resistance from Indigenous groups and government agencies to its premier exploration project, which would open the most promising ...

People walk on a shopping street in the southern German town of Konstanz January 17, 2015.

German economy doing a bit better, Bundesbank says

Reuters |Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The German economy likely expanded in the first quarter on an unexpected boost from industry and construction but there are still no signs of a meaningful recovery, the Bundesbank said in a monthly economic report. Germany's ...