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Sep. 8, 2014 at 12:03 pm CDT

By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, September 8 – The Canadian dollar was lower against its US counterpart at midday Monday, as the American greenback appreciated in the wake of Friday’s US jobs report. US businesses added 142,000 jobs in August, the smallest gain in eight months. However, it looked […]

Sep. 8, 2014 at 9:09 am CDT

By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, September 8 – The Canadian dollar was lower Monday morning, as concern increased over how the Scottish referendum on independence may turn out. A new poll shows rising support for Scottish Independence. Meanwhile the market continues to feel pressure from jobs data last week […]

Sep. 5, 2014 at 3:42 pm CDT

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, September 5 – The Canadian dollar was down slightly relative to the US dollar on Friday, reacting to disappointing Canadian employment data, analyst said. Statistics Canada said 11,000 jobs were lost in August, falling well below expectations calling for 10,000 newly created jobs. Weak […]

Sep. 5, 2014 at 12:03 pm CDT

By Commodity News Service Canada Winnipeg, September 5 – The Canadian dollar was slightly weaker against its US counterpart at midday Friday, undermined by a report that said the country lost 11,000 jobs last month. According to Statistics Canada, the unemployment rate remained unchanged at seven percent. There were also […]

Sep. 5, 2014 at 9:08 am CDT

By Commodity News Service Canada WINNIPEG, Sept. 5 The Canadian dollar was slightly weaker Friday morning, as the currency reacted to the latest monthly employment data. At 9:03 CDT Friday morning the Canadian dollar was at US$0.9188 or C$1.0884 which compares with Thursday’s North American close of US$0.9196, or C$1.0874. […]