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    Bloomberg

    Global Bond Rout Pauses for US Inflation Data as Rate Bets Fade

    (Bloomberg) -- A selloff in global bonds paused as traders waited for US inflation to shed light on whether the Federal Reserve will be able to cut interest rates this year.Most Read from BloombergJavier Milei Fuels Wild Rally That Makes Peso No. 1 in WorldUS Economy Slows and Inflation Jumps, Damping Soft-Landing HopesPlunging Home Prices, Fleeing Companies: Austin’s Glow Is FadingMalaysia in Talks With Tycoons on Casino to Revive $100 Billion Forest CityHuawei’s New Phone Runs Latest Version o

  • Business
    The Canadian Press

    Booze-free bottle shops aim to showcase variety, educate consumers

    Jonathan Barembruch and his wife would often sit with a glass of wine and unwind after long days at work. But when his wife became pregnant, Barembruch decided to find an alternative for their after-work tradition, setting out to find the best non-alcoholic drinks so the two could still carry on their evening ritual. Several online retailers sold non-alcoholic wine, beer and spirits, but none of them offered enough information about the products, he recalled. It was hard to decide which one tast

  • Science
    The Canadian Press

    As the climate changes, so too do Canadians' farm fields and dinner tables

    Canada's farm fields are in the midst of a transformation. As the country rapidly warms from human-caused climate change, farmers are being pushed to reconsider conventional wisdom about what can and can't survive in this northern climate. Crops are getting planted later in the year than ever as killer winter frost delays its arrival in Ontario. Berries in British Columbia devastated by recent climate-driven extreme heat and floods are moving into the controlled climates of vertical farms. A spi

  • News
    The Canadian Press

    Red gold: Climate change plays role as saffron cultivation comes to Nova Scotia

    When Matthew Roy moved from New Hampshire in 2020 to start a farm in southwestern Nova Scotia, one of the new crops he zeroed in on was saffron. A spice so expensive that it has been dubbed red gold, saffron is traditionally grown in Iran, India, Afghanistan, Spain and a handful of other countries. "We decided that we would bring two new crops to Nova Scotia, specifically because of the changing climate," Roy said recently from his four-year-old Coastal Grove Farm in Upper Port La Tour, N.S. (Th