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Robb M Stewart

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Scribbling for The Wall Street Journal. UPI, Canadian Press alum.

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Canada GDP Seen Dipping in September After Two Flat Months wsj.com/economy/canada-gdp-s… via @WSJ
Canada GDP Seen Dipping in September After Two Flat Months

Canada GDP Seen Dipping in September After Two Flat Months

Canada’s economy cooled in the latest quarter after activity unexpectedly stalled two months running and early data points to a slight contraction in September.

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Canada Retail Sales Look to Build on August’s Rebound wsj.com/economy/consumers/ca… via @WSJ
Canada Retail Sales Look to Build on August’s Rebound

Canada Retail Sales Look to Build on August’s Rebound

Retail spending by Canadians looks to have remained on the rise last month, though the pace is showing signs of cooling as uncertainty and gasoline prices remain high.

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Canada Producer Prices Rise Again in September, Climbing 2% for the Month

Canada Producer Prices Rise Again in September, Climbing 2% for the Month

Statistics Canada’s industrial product price index increased 2% in September from the month before and jumped 14.5% compared with a year earlier, a 24th consecutive annual increase.

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Hudbay, Mitsubishi Approve Construction of Big Copper Project in Arizona

Hudbay, Mitsubishi Approve Construction of Big Copper Project in Arizona

Hudbay Minerals and partner Mitsubishi have formally approved construction of what promises to be the next major copper mine in the U.S., with production set to begin in the back half of 2029.

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Canada Inflation Heats Up in September With Jump in Gas Prices wsj.com/economy/central-bank… via @WSJ
Canada Inflation Heats Up in September With Jump in Gas Prices

Canada Inflation Heats Up in September With Jump in Gas Prices

Canadian inflation ticked higher last month as prices at the pump jumped again, though underlying price pressures look to be holding steady.

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Canada Housing Starts Rise in September, Though Market Faces Longer-Term Supply Gap wsj.com/economy/housing/cana… via @WSJ
Canada Housing Starts Rise in September, Though Market Faces Longer-Term Supply Gap

Canada Housing Starts Rise in September, Though Market Faces Longer-Term Supply Gap

Canadian housing starts picked up last month though the pace remains soft as the broader market shows signs of cooling into the end of the year.

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Canada Factory Sales Recover in August With Increased Prices

Canada Factory Sales Recover in August With Increased Prices

Shipments increased from the month before, marking a sixth rise in factory trade in the last seven months after a 0.3% dip in July.

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Chinese Auto Giant Geely Announces Canada Entry in 2027 as U.S. Seeks Ban

Chinese Auto Giant Geely Announces Canada Entry in 2027 as U.S. Seeks Ban

The automaker is expanding to Canada under a deal to bring tens of thousands of affordable EVs from China’s car companies to the country.

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Weakness in Canada's job market extended into September, with employment now down 110,000 over two months but the jobless rate up only a tick to 6.5% via @WSJ wsj.com/economy/jobs/canada-…
Canada Jobless Rate Edges Up With Another Drop in Employment

Canada Jobless Rate Edges Up With Another Drop in Employment

Canada’s economy shed jobs for a second month running, nudging the unemployment rate up. Employers cut 68,300 jobs in September, Statistics Canada said.

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Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Navi Pillay, Mandela Lawyer Who Led Human Rights at U.N.

Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Navi Pillay, Mandela Lawyer Who Led Human Rights at U.N.

The South African was recognized for her efforts to promote peace and international law.

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Acclaimed Canadian poet Anne Carson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her “bold and inventive” work wsj.com/world/canadian-poet-… via @WSJ

Canadian Poet Anne Carson Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

The acclaimed poet, classicist and translator was lauded by the Nobel Committee for her “bold and inventive” work.

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Devon Energy is selling its Eagle Ford assets to Crescent Energy for $4.2 Billion wsj.com/business/energy-oil/… via @WSJ
Devon Energy Sells Eagle Ford Assets to Crescent Energy for $4.2 Billion

Devon Energy Sells Eagle Ford Assets to Crescent Energy for $4.2 Billion

President and CEO Clay Gaspar said the deal is the outcome of an ongoing portfolio review and sharpens the company’s focus on its highest-return and longest-duration assets.

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Canada’s Weston Family to Buy British Pharmacy Chain Boots for $8.9 Billion wsj.com/business/retail/witt… via @WSJ
Canada’s Weston Family to Buy British Pharmacy Chain Boots for $8.9 Billion

Canada’s Weston Family to Buy British Pharmacy Chain Boots for $8.9 Billion

The move will see Wittington buy Boots’ retail operations in the U.K. and Ireland; the Boots Opticians chain, No7 Beauty Co., and its Thailand and franchised businesses.

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Canada’s August Trade Surplus Widens Sharply Ahead of Fresh Tariffs wsj.com/economy/trade/canada… via @WSJ
Canada’s August Trade Surplus Widens Sharply Ahead of Fresh Tariffs

Canada’s August Trade Surplus Widens Sharply Ahead of Fresh Tariffs

Reading marked a sixth consecutive merchandise-trade surplus and the biggest since May 2022, and came in well above the roughly C$1.5 billion economists anticipated.

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Is it plausible that Americans will spend as much of their income on artificial intelligence as they do on food, asks @greg_ip wsj.com/tech/ai/will-america… via @WSJ
Will America Spend 9% of Its GDP on AI? The Industry Is Counting on It

Will America Spend 9% of Its GDP on AI? The Industry Is Counting on It

To justify staggering investment sums, Americans will have to spend as much of their income on this one technology as they do on food.

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Canada Manufacturing Grows More Modestly in September

Canada Manufacturing Grows More Modestly in September

Canadian manufacturing activity softened again last month, with the industry continuing to notch a lift in production in the face of a fall in new orders and a spike in cost inflation, data showed.

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Canada GDP Indicates Recovery After Stalling in July wsj.com/economy/central-bank… via @WSJ
Canada GDP Indicates Recovery After Stalling in July

Canada GDP Indicates Recovery After Stalling in July

Gross domestic product was unchanged from the month before in July, snapping three straight months of expansion that included upwardly revised growth of 0.4% in June.

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Canada’s Population Growth Continues to Slow, Hits Estimated 41.8 Million

Canada’s Population Growth Continues to Slow, Hits Estimated 41.8 Million

The country’s population hit an estimated just under 41.8 million on July 1, a rise of 189,425 people, or 0.5%, on a year earlier, Statistics Canada said Wednesday.

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Canada Retail Sales Recover Following First Fall of Year in July wsj.com/economy/consumers/ca… via @WSJ
Canada Retail Sales Recover Following First Fall of Year in July

Canada Retail Sales Recover Following First Fall of Year in July

Sales in July fell for the first time this year, declining 0.7% from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted 73.7 billion Canadian dollars, the equivalent of about US$52.25 billion.

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Canada Producer Prices Continue to Increase on Energy Costs wsj.com/economy/canada-produ… via @WSJ
Canada Producer Prices Continue to Increase on Energy Costs

Canada Producer Prices Continue to Increase on Energy Costs

Statistics Canada’s industrial product price index increased 1.3% in July from the month before. Compared with a year earlier, prices were 13.5% higher, a 23rd straight annual increase.

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