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U.S. activist investor Ackman leaves CP board

Sep. 7, 2016 at 7:00 pm CDT

Bill Ackman, the U.S. activist investor who usurped the leadership of Canadian Pacific Railway in 2012, is leaving the Calgary company’s board after his hedge fund sold off its remaining stake last month. Ackman, who heads New York-based Pershing Square Capital Management, joined CP’s board in 2012 and served on […]

Farmers’ debt seen hitting fresh record high

Sep. 7, 2016 at 12:24 pm CDT

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ChemChina extends tender offers for Syngenta

Sep. 6, 2016 at 1:20 pm CDT

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Smithfield says Illinois hog plant shut down after fire

Sep. 6, 2016 at 1:13 pm CDT

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Austria drops talk of ‘conflict’ over EU-Canada trade deal

Sep. 2, 2016 at 7:22 pm CDT

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Austria expects ‘conflict’ on Canada trade deal

Sep. 1, 2016 at 7:41 pm CDT

Vienna | Reuters — Austria is ready to confront other European Union members states over its opposition to a free trade deal with Canada, Chancellor Christian Kern said, because it sees it containing many of the same problems as one being negotiated with the U.S. Austria opposes a proposed free […]

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German activists take EU-Canada trade deal to Constitutional Court

Aug. 31, 2016 at 8:57 pm CDT

Berlin | Reuters — Activists delivered what they said was Germany’s biggest-ever public complaint to the Constitutional Court on Wednesday, hoping it will scupper a trade agreement between the European Union and Canada. The deal, which some see as a template for an EU-U.S. agreement still being negotiated, is the […]

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Chile plans to send TPP deal to Congress this year

Aug. 25, 2016 at 6:23 pm CDT

Santiago | Reuters — The Chilean government is expecting to send the Pacific trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to its Congress for approval by the end of 2016, President Michelle Bachelet said Thursday. The 12-nation TPP aims to liberalize commerce in 40 per cent of the world’s […]

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Pettigrew tapped to help push through EU trade deal

Aug. 24, 2016 at 6:54 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada has named a former politician with experience in trade and foreign affairs as the government’s new envoy to help complete its long-negotiated free trade agreement with the European Union, a spokeswoman said Wednesday. Pierre Pettigrew, who served as both minister of foreign affairs and minister […]

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U.S. Senate judiciary committee to hold hearing on ag chem deals

Aug. 23, 2016 at 7:26 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Senate judiciary committee will hold a hearing in late September to discuss the mergers of Dow Chemical and Dupont as well as ChemChina’s purchase of Syngenta, committee chair Charles Grassley said in a statement Tuesday. Grassley, a Republican from the farm state of Iowa, […]

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