Forex News
The Chinese yuan and Australian dollar will strengthen further this year: Strategist
The National Australia Bank's Ray Attrill justifies his group's revised year-end forecasts for the Chinese yuan and the Australian dollar.
Here are the three focuses investors should have in 2021, according to Goldman's Currie
CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" team is joined by Jeff Currie, global head of commodities research at Goldman Sachs, to discuss his outlook for commodities in 2021.
Why this market strategist says the dollar is poised to rally
CNBC's Kelly Evans discusses why the U.S. dollar may be poised to rally with David Zervos, chief market strategist at Jefferies.
US dollar's downward trajectory to prevail despite risk-positive news: Strategist
Rodrigo Catril from NAB explains why he thinks the U.S. dollar is likely to trend downwards in the coming months. He also explains why he believes negative rates in New Zealand are off the table.
Markets & Economics
JPMorgan becomes first major bank to say first-quarter GDP will decline because of Covid surge
Wall Street had been expecting a positive first quarter and improving growth nex...
October existing home sales see 'spectacular' 26.6% annual gain even with short supply and surging prices
Sales of existing homes in October soared well past expectations, rising 4.3% co...
Jobless claims filings pick up amid continued struggles for labor market
First-time filings for unemployment benefits totaled 742,000 last week vs. the W...
Bostic says Fed's tools still have 'juice' and will be used if the economy slows
Even with the prospects of at least two vaccines, Bostic said there are multiple...
Canadian Business
GM to recall about 7 million pickups, SUVs for fau...
General Motors will recall about seven million big pickup trucks and SUVs worldwide to replace potentially dangerous Takata air bag inflators.
CRA warns 213,000 Canadians that they might have t...
The Canada Revenue Agency says it's warning about 213,000 Canadians who may have been paid twice through the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) program that they could be called upon to repay the money.
Indigenous man and granddaughter handcuffed at Van...
A human rights complaint has been filed against Bank of Montreal and the Vancouver Police Board after Indigenous man Maxwell Johnson and his granddaughter, 12-year-old Tori-Anne, were suspected of fraud and handcuffed while trying to open an account at a Vancouver branch of the bank last year.
His bank raided his account to cover a payment mad...
A Toronto man fell victim to a job scam, but was even more shocked when his bank, Scotiabank subsidiary Tangerine, took some $3,000 from his account to make up for what it lost to the fraudsters. Go Public investigated banking rules that allow seizure of funds from different accounts.
Loblaw to give autonomous delivery vehicles test r...
Loblaw Companies Ltd. has signed a partnership deal with technology company Gatik to test autonomous delivery vehicles in Toronto starting in January.
Japan's detention of ex-Nissan chairman Carlos Gho...
A panel of human rights experts working with the United Nations said Monday that former Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn was wrongly detained in Japan and has urged "compensation" for him from the Japanese government.