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Citi U.S. strategist goes bargain hunting for ‘20 growth stocks to consider on a pullback’
Trader Leon Montana works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, Sept. 13.
canada
Food Banks Canada gets $17.9-million in federal funding to distribute menstrual products
Various menstrual products are seen on Feb. 20, 2019, in Kennesaw, Ga. The British Columbia government says it is providing $750,000 to expand access to free menstrual products for people who need them and to help the United Way establish a task force to consider how to end "period poverty." THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Mike Stewart
u.s. business
U.S. existing home sales fell in August as tight supply boosted prices
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 30: A "For Sale" sign is displayed in front of a home on August 30, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. According to data from the California Association of Realtors, housing affordability dropped to a 16-year low in California in the second quarter of this year amid high-interest rates. According to the figures, just 16 percent of people in the state are able to afford to purchase an existing median-priced single-family home. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
opinion
Home truths about Canada’s housing mess
Andrew Coyne
opinion
The opioid crisis is a chronic disease. So let’s treat it that way
The Editorial Board
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‘The one recent occasion U.S. housing starts approached current Canadian levels a home price crash ensued’: BMO economist
A house for sale in Leaside neighbourhood, Toronto on May 16, 2023
energy and resources
Oil rises to highest in 2023 on tight supply expectations
FILE - A flare burns off methane and other hydrocarbons as oil pumpjacks operate in the Permian Basin in Midland, Texas, Oct. 12, 2021. Two Texas companies have resolved Clean Air Act violations with the Environmental Protection Agency by agreeing to reduce emissions of planet-warming methane and other harmful pollutants wafting from the nation's largest oil and gas producing region. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
energy and resources
Oil dips as surprise U.S. crude stockbuild faces supply cuts
An array of pumpjacks operate Thursday, July 7, 2022, in Odessa, Texas. (Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP)
energy and resources
Oil prices settle mostly flat ahead of monthly oil forecasts
An array of pumpjacks operate Thursday, July 7, 2022, in Odessa, Texas. (Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP)
opinion
We must end the unwitnessed safe supply of opioids
Mark Mallet
u.s. business
Fed’s Susan Collins says now is time to be patient, deliberate with monetary policy
FILE PHOTO: An eagle tops the U.S. Federal Reserve building's facade in Washington, July 31, 2013. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
energy and resources
Oil prices settle at 10-month high as Saudi, Russia extend supply cuts
FILE PHOTO: Pumpjacks are seen against the setting sun at the Daqing oil field in Heilongjiang province, China December 7, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer
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Oil stable on prospect of extended OPEC+ supply cuts
world
Ukraine’s substandard medical supplies endangering soldiers as war intensifies, volunteers warn
international business
Saudi Arabia may raise Arab Light price to 10-month high in October
FILE — An oil tank farm in Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia on Jan. 11, 2018. Saudi Arabia is the BRICS club’s biggest trading partner in the Middle East. (Christophe Viseux/The New York Times)
energy and resources
Oil prices rise after U.S. data shows tighter crude supply
FILE - In this April 24, 2015, file photo, pumpjacks work in a field in the Permian Basin near Lovington, N.M. Top officials with the largest Native American tribe in the United States are renewing a request for congressional leaders to hold a field hearing before deciding on federal legislation aimed at limiting oil and gas development around Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The Navajo Nation has struggled for years with high poverty rates and joblessness, and the tribe’s legislative leaders say individual Navajo allottees stand to lose an important source of income if a 10-mile buffer is created around the park. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
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What would you rather have: Too many doctors, or too few?
Tony Keller
investment ideas
All eyes on ChatGPT-maker’s Worldcoin
Stickers handed out to people who signed up for WorldCoin are seen at a sign-up site in Shoreditch, East London, Britain July 24, 2023.
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What Taylor Swift has in common with your family doctor
Tony Keller
energy and resources
Goldman Sachs upgrades oil demand outlook as market tempers growth pessimism
An array of pumpjacks operate Thursday, July 7, 2022, in Odessa, Texas. (Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP)
energy and resources
Oil prices hit three-month highs on tightening supplies
FILE - A flare burns off methane and other hydrocarbons as oil pumpjacks operate in the Permian Basin in Midland, Texas, Oct. 12, 2021. Two Texas companies have resolved Clean Air Act violations with the Environmental Protection Agency by agreeing to reduce emissions of planet-warming methane and other harmful pollutants wafting from the nation's largest oil and gas producing region. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
energy and resources
Oil rallies higher for fourth straight week on tightening supply
FILE PHOTO: Pumpjacks are seen against the setting sun at the Daqing oil field in Heilongjiang province, China December 7, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer
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Standard Chartered boosts 2024 bitcoin forecast to US$120,000
FILE PHOTO: The logo of the bitcoin digital currency is seen in a shop in Marseille, France, February 7, 2021. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard/File Photo
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Vancouver home prices ticking up as supply remains under pressure, real estate board says
A sold sticker is seen on a for sale sign outside a house that was sold in east Vancouver, on Wednesday, April 15, 2020. Darryl Dyck/The Globe and Mail
opinion
Unrelenting drug overdose deaths demand an unrelenting policy response from governments
The Editorial Board
energy and resources
Oil settles lower as economic jitters outweigh supply cuts
FILE PHOTO: A pump jack operates in front of a drilling rig at sunset in an oilfield in Midland, Texas U.S. August 22, 2018. REUTERS/Nick Oxford//File Photo
opinion
Don’t blame inflation on government or central bank – or expect them to fix it
Kevin Yin
world
Cocaine market booming as meth trafficking spreads, UN report says
FILE PHOTO: Officers of Honduras' Technical Agency for Criminal Investigation carry a package containing cocaine seized during a police operation, at a presentation to the media, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras December 11, 2022. REUTERS/Fredy Rodriguez
opinion
With more forest fires, alternate roads to communities like Tofino are no luxury
Marsha Lederman
energy and resources
Iran’s crude exports, oil output hit five-year highs despite U.S. sanctions
FILE PHOTO: The Iranian flag waves in front of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna, Austria, March 1, 2021. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner/File Photo
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Aurora Cannabis reports rise in third-quarter revenue, boosted by Bevo acquisition
FILE PHOTO: The Logo for Aurora Cannabis Inc., a Canadian licensed cannabis producer, is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., January 8, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
british columbia
Western Canada: B.C. officials defend safer-supply program
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry looks on as chief coroner Lisa Lapointe discusses details about the province's application for decriminalization in the next step to reduce toxic drug deaths during a news conference in the press gallery at the legislature in Victoria, Monday, Nov. 1, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
u.s. business
U.S. trade deficit widens sharply in April as imports rebound, exports decline
(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 14, 2021 a truck drives past ships docked at the Port of Los Angeles, in Los Angeles, California. - Two of the busiest ports in the United States were shuttered on April 7, 2023 because not enough dockworkers turned up for work, a shippers representative said. The shutdown comes as part of a long-rumbling dispute between shippers and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) focused on pay and the role of automation. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)
energy and resources
Saudi output cuts unlikely to lift oil prices to high $80s-low $90s, Citi says
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 23: Oil pumpjacks stand in the Inglewood Oil Field on November 23, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. President Biden announced a plan to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to curb high gas prices. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
british columbia
B.C. is reviewing its safer supply policies with an eye to expanding the program
FILE PHOTO: A fentanyl user displays a "safe supply" of opioid alternatives, provided by the local health unit to combat overdoses due to poisonous additives and to support addicts and the homeless in practicing social distancing to help slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada April 6, 2020. Picture taken April 6, 2020. REUTERS/Jesse Winter/File Photo
british columbia
Western Canada: B.C. municipalities try to tackle public drug use
Needles are seen on the ground in Oppenheimer park in Vancouver's downtown eastside on March 17, 2020.