The Canadian Parliament has agreed to rush through ratification of the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade pact and should be finished by later on Friday, a senior government official said.
Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster was one of a number of policymakers criticised in an inquiry on Friday into the so-called "cash for ash" scandal, which caused a three-year suspension of the province's government until January.
Canada may soon advise against non-essential foreign travel, and it will be taking a number of new measures at airports in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday.
Oil demand has been revised downward several times since the start of the year by nearly every analyst or banking institution thanks to the devastating impact of the coronavirus.
The head of British Airways said coronavirus was causing an unprecedented crisis, warning that aircraft would be parked like never before and staff laid off, in a hardhitting staff message to address "the worsening situation".
Brazilian cotton farmers have finished sowing their crop on 1.619 million hectares (4 million acres), marking a 0.05% increase from last season's record area as estimated by the government, agribusiness consultancy INTL FCStone said in a report on Friday.
Shanghai Futures Exchange copper inventories rose another 10% in the past week to their highest in almost four years amid signs China's production is holding up even as demand struggles to recover from the impact of the coronavirus.
Shanghai Futures Exchange copper inventories rose another 10% in the past week to their highest in almost four years amid signs China's production is holding up even as demand struggles to recover from the impact of the coronavirus.
Carpenter Technology Corp. (Symbol: CRS) has been named as a Top 5 dividend paying metals and mining stock, according to Dividend Channel, which published its weekly ''DividendRank'' report. The report noted that among metals and mining companies, CRS shares displayed both a
Days after photographs of broken windows and smashed china hit the newsstands revealing a Christmas Day family squabble in the home of Korean Air's late patriarch, an activist fund received an unsolicited offer to help unseat the current chairman.
The World Health Organization is considering changing the way it classifies and describes international epidemics, amid a protracted public debate over whether to call the outbreak of the new coronavirus a pandemic.
The World Health Organization is considering changing the way it classifies and describes international epidemics, amid a protracted public debate over whether to call the outbreak of the new coronavirus a pandemic.
Vietnam allowed entry to nearly 200 engineers from Samsung Electronics' display unit from South Korea on Friday without making them go into quarantine for 14 days, the South Korean embassy in Vietnam said.
The airline stocks that suffered the most after U.S. President Donald Trump barred continental Europeans from traveling to the United States do not even operate flights between those two regions.
Russian aluminium giant Rusal said on Friday its net loss widened sharply in the last quarter of 2019, adding that the spread of the coronavirus may worsen aluminium market fundamentals in the first half of 2020.
Asian refiners may curtail jet fuel output by partially reducing processing as the fuel's value versus diesel plunged after the United States said it would ban European travellers to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
EasyJet said on Friday it will allow customers to transfer their flights to alternative dates or destinations without a change fee, as many countries have imposed travel restrictions due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Turkey, which unleashed massive stimulus to recover from a 2018 currency crisis, is poised to stretch its central bank and public finances even more to defend the economy and tourism sector from the global coronavirus pandemic.
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