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What have been flashpoints in Canada-US relations?
The fraying relationship with the U.S. has taken on oversized importance for Canadian voters who head to the polls on Monday to decide whether to give Prime Minister Mark Carney's ...
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Tariffs may mean more US steel jobs. Will there be workers to fill them?
Mississippi County, Arkansas, thrives with steel industry jobs, but struggles with a labor shortage. Workers commute long distances or live in RVs, despite good wages. Local econom...
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Brazil's JBS calls shareholder meeting to vote on US listing plan
JBS SA , the world's largest meatpacker, called a shareholder meeting for May 23 to vote on its plan to list shares on the New York Stock Exchange, it said in a securities filing o...
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Nvidia-backed CoreWeave gets largely bullish coverage from brokerages
Wall Street brokerages on Tuesday began coverage of Nvidia-backed CoreWeave with broadly bullish views, although the stock has failed to gain traction with investors following a la...
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Wall St Week Ahead Busy US earnings week confronts market grappling with tariff fallout
A heavy slate of U.S. company results in the coming week will test a stock market shaken by a U.S. trade policy overhaul that upended the outlook for the global economy and corpora...
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Fed proposes averaging large bank stress test results to reduce volatility
The Federal Reserve kicked off a sweeping effort to overhaul its annual stress tests of large banks on Thursday, proposing to average results over two years in setting capital requ...
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US single-family housing starts tumble to an eight-month low in March
U.S. single-family homebuilding plunged to an eight-month low in March and could decline further as tariffs on imported materials raise costs and offset declining mortgage rates.
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US labor market stable; single-family homebuilding dives amid tariffs
The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits fell to a two-month low last week, suggesting labor market conditions remained stable in April, though unc...
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Shortsellers targeted wider range of companies ahead of Trump's 'Liberation Day'
Shortsellers targeted a wider range of equity sectors in March before U.S. President Donald Trump's April 2 "Liberation Day" tariff announcement and raised negative bets on a clust...
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Tariffs to trigger sharp US economic slowdown; chance of recession jumps to 45%: Reuters Poll
An aggressive U.S. tariff policy will trigger a significant slowdown in the U.S. economy this year and next, with the median probability of recession in the next 12 months approach...
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S&P 500, Nasdaq advance after selloff; UnitedHealth plunges
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq rose on Thursday on the final trading day of the week, with focus on U.S.-Japan tariff talks, while a slump in UnitedHealth's shares following a forecast...
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Fed's Schmid says patience needed to see how tariffs play out
The Federal Reserve faces a complicated picture for policy decisions, Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank President Jeff Schmid said on Wednesday, noting that while he is hearing nerv...
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Tariff-wounded stocks find no balm with Powell remarks
Investors who may have been hoping the Federal Reserve is poised to come to the aid of tariff-rattled markets took away an unwelcome message from the central bank's chief on Wednes...
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Foreign holdings of US Treasuries rise in February
Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasuries rose 3.4% in February, data from the Treasury Department showed on Wednesday, with the two largest owners, Japan and China, building up their U....
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Fed's Powell says markets orderly, downplays intervention risk
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell suggested on Wednesday that hopes the central bank will step in to tamp down on market volatility are likely misplaced.
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US business inventories rise moderately in February
U.S. business inventories increased slightly in February amid strong sales growth likely as households stocked up on goods ahead of tariffs on imports.
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US manufacturing output slows in March; tariffs cloud hangs over factories
U.S. manufacturing production rose moderately in March and could decelerate further amid President Donald Trump's global tariffs, which have sparked a trade war with China.
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