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Canada Records Second Straight Trade Surplus on Lower Imports

Shelly Hagan | Bloomberg | 04/07/2021

Canada ran a second straight monthly trade surplus for the first time in five years, an improvement that reflects slumping imports. Canada ran a merchandise trade surplus of C$1.04 billion…

IMF Forecasts Survival of the Richest

COLM QUINN | FP | 04/07/2021

The United States is likely to be the only large economy to emerge even richer from the COVID-...

IMF calls for wealth tax to help cover cost of Covid pandemic

Larry Elliott | The Guardian | 04/07/2021

Governments should consider levying higher taxes on the in...

CEO Mary Barra bets GM can grow beyond cars and trucks

Paul Lienert | Ben Klayman | Joseph White | Reuters | 04/07/2021

(Reuters) – Pam Fletcher wants to ch...

China Creates Its Own Digital Currency, a First for Major Economy

James T. Areddy | WSJ | 04/06/2021

A thousand years ago, when money meant coins, China invented ...

Global Brands Find It Hard to Untangle Themselves From Xinjiang Cotton

Peter S. Goodman, Vivian Wang and Elizabeth Paton | The New York Times | 04/06/2021

Faced w...

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