U.S. West Coast refiners are replacing their heavy Iraqi oil imports with cheaper crude from Canada as the newly expanded Trans Mountain pipeline reshuffles trade flows across the Pacific.
California and Washington are set to import about 150,000 barrels a day of Canadian crude by tanker in June — a seven-fold increase from average volumes, according to preliminary Vortexa data.
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Statistics Canada released the inflation report for May on Wednesday, showing a surprising uptick in the country's yearly inflation rate to 2.9% for the month, exceeding the forecasted figure of 2.7%. This development might shake the market's anticipation of a rate cut coming in July. Nonetheless, the data aligns with the Bank of Canada's target range for inflation control, set at 1%-3%. Before the report's release, market conse...

Good morning mooers! Here are things you need to know about today's market:
● S&P/TSX 60 Index Standard Futures are trading at 1,347.70, up 0.64%
● Copper's downward trend continues as high prices repel Chinese purchasers
● Imperial starts production at new oilsands project using lower-emissions technology
● TD Bank earnings dented by provisions, restructuring and rise in non-interes...

From the point of view of globalization and comparative advantages, there exist considerable opportunites in the natural resource sector of Canada. Among others, oil and gas is an important natural resource sector.
As Canada is named as a major oil and gas producing company by our PM (video), the bullish side of the oil and gas sector is further enhanced by the recent completion of trans-moutain pipeline expansion project and the major progress of the LNG Can...