The Canadian dollar fell for a second day after a government report showed Canada’s trade surplus narrowed more than analysts forecast.
[B]Canada[/B][B]'s Trade Surplus Falls as Exports Drop
[/B]Exports fell for the third straight month in June, narrowing Canada’s trade surplus with the rest of the world, Statistics Canada said Tuesday. The trade surplus fell to a lower-than-expected $5.3 billion, down from $5.9 billion the month before. Analysts had been expecting the surplus to drop to $5.6 billion.
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2007/08/14/trade.html
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[B]ICE has Friday Deadline to Boost Bid for Winnipeg
[/B]Intercontinental Exchange Inc. has until Friday to match a $50-million competing takeover offer from a mystery bidder for the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange, privately held WCE Holdings Inc. said in a release. ICE offered $40 million for the Winnipeg exchange, best known for its canola futures contract, in June while in the midst of a bidding war for the Chicago Board of Trade, which it lost to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
[B]http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=3ee984a7-44a4-4a3c-9bd0-7601d7c7b929&k=89132 [/B]
[I][B]Source: Financial Post[/B][/I]
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[B]Canada[/B][B] Dollar Falls as Trade Surplus Narrows More Than Forecast
[/B]The Canadian dollar fell for a second day after a government report showed Canada’s trade surplus narrowed more than analysts forecast. The currency also declined as traders unwound so-called carry trades, a strategy in which they borrow yen in Japan, where the benchmark lending rate is 0.5 percent, to buy higher- yielding assets in economies such as Canada, where the lending rate is 4.50 percent.
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[I]Source: Bloomberg [/I]