Bloomberg US President Donald Trump’s trade war isn’t only rattling global soybean markets. It’s also shifting the flow of crops within the US, changing pricing patterns and boosting how much of this season’s bumper crop needs to be stored. Traders shipping soybeans through the Pacific Northwest, a key export hub to China, are now diverting supply from that route south ...

Bloomberg The US trade deficit widened more than forecast in September to a seven-month high as imports expanded and the merchandise gap with China hit a record amid an escalating tariff war. The gap for goods and services increased 1.3 percent from the prior month to $54 billion, Commerce Department data showed. The median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg ...

Bloomberg Canada’s unemployment rate fell back to four-decade lows, but sluggish wage increases and slumping exports offer little evidence the economy is running hot enough to warrant accelerated interest rate increases. Statistics Canada released jobs data that showed modest employment gains, but with a shrinking labour force and the slowest wage gains in a year. A separate trade report continued ...